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Over three weekends in Spring 2014, a group of volunteers organized the [[Community Data Science Workshops]] (CDSW) — a series of four sessions designed to introduce some of the basic tools of programming and analysis of data from online communities to absolute beginners. The CDSW were held between April 4th and May 31st in 2014 at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Over three weekends in Spring 2014, a group of volunteers organized the [[Community Data Science Workshops (Spring 2014)]] (CDSW) — the first series of four sessions designed to introduce some of the basic tools of programming and analysis of data from online communities to absolute beginners. This version of the [[CDSW]] were held between April 4th and May 31st in 2014 at the University of Washington in Seattle.


This page hosts reflections on organization and curriculum and is written for anybody interested in organizing their own CDSW — including the authors!
This page hosts reflections on organization and curriculum and is written for anybody interested in organizing their own CDSW — including the authors!
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== Structure ==
== Structure ==


The [[CDSW]] consisted of [[CDSW#Schedule|four sessions]]:
The [[Community Data Science Workshops (Spring 2014)]] consisted of [[Community Data Science Workshops (Spring 2014)#Schedule|four sessions]]:


* '''Session 0 (Friday April 4th)''': [[CDSW#Session 0 (Friday April 4th Evening 6-9pm)|Setup and Programming Practice]]
* '''Session 0 (Friday April 4th)''': [[Community Data Science Workshops (Spring 2014)#Session 0 (Friday April 4th Evening 6-9pm)|Setup and Programming Practice]]
* '''Session 1 (Saturday April 5th)''': [[CDSW#Session 1 (Saturday April 5th)|Introduction to Python]]
* '''Session 1 (Saturday April 5th)''': [[Community Data Science Workshops (Spring 2014)#Session 1 (Saturday April 5th)|Introduction to Python]]
* '''Session 2 (Saturday May 3rd)''': [[CDSW#Session 2 (Saturday May 3rd)|Building data sets using web APIs]]
* '''Session 2 (Saturday May 3rd)''': [[Community Data Science Workshops (Spring 2014)#Session 2 (Saturday May 3rd)|Building data sets using web APIs]]
* '''Session 3 (Saturday May 31st)''': [[CDSW# Session 3 (Saturday May 31st)|Data analysis and visualization]]
* '''Session 3 (Saturday May 31st)''': [[Community Data Science Workshops (Spring 2014)# Session 3 (Saturday May 31st)|Data analysis and visualization]]


Our organization and the curriculum for Sessions 0 and 1 were borrowed from the [http://bostonpythonworkshop.com/ Boston Python Workshop] (BPW): Session 0 was a three hour evening session to install software. The other sessions were all day-long session (10am to 4pm) sessions broken up into the following schedule:
Our organization and the curriculum for Sessions 0 and 1 were borrowed from the [http://bostonpythonworkshop.com/ Boston Python Workshop] (BPW): Session 0 was a three hour evening session to install software. The other sessions were all day-long session (10am to 4pm) sessions broken up into the following schedule: