Community Data Science Workshops (Spring 2014)

Welcome to the Community Data Workshops — a series of four sessions designed to introduce some of the basic tools of programming and data analysis to absolute beginners.

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Registration

Registration is currently closed and, sadly, we are oversubscribed! Even though we've found a much bigger room and doubled our capacity, we have still had to turn away many people. That said, we certainly hope to organize more workshops like these in the future. You can watch (or subscribe to) the Newtork Collective blog where we will post more information in the future.

Schedule

All sessions are interactive and involve you getting involved in programming. Everybody attending should bring a laptop and a power cord so that they don't run out of battery.

Session 0 (Friday April 4th Evening)

• set up your development environment
• learn how to execute Python code from a file and interactively from a Python prompt
• learn about printing and using Python as a calculator

Session 1 (Saturday April 5th)

• Morning, 10am-noon: a 2 hour lecture-based introduction to the Python programming language
• Lunch, noon-1pm: we'll provide lunch
• Afternoon, 1pm-3pm: Python practice through short projects on a variety of fun and practical topics
• Wrap-up, 3pm-3:30pm: Wrap-up, next steps, and upcoming opportunities for learning and practicing Python

We will post details about Session 2 (May 3rd) and Session 3 (May 31st) later.

Resources

• Friday April 4th setup and tutorial
• Saturday April 5th lecture notes
• Saturday April 5th projects
• CodeAcademy exercises (Deadlink)