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:''If you're interested in putting on your own CDSW, you should also see our [[Community Data Science Workshops (Spring 2014)/Reflections|reflections from Spring 2014]].''
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=== Morning lecture ===
The [[Community Data Science Workshops (Fall 2014)/Day 2 lecture|morning lecture]] was given by Frances Hocutt and it was well received. Unsurprisingly, the example of [http://placekitten.com/ PlaceKitten] as an API was an enormous hit: informative ''and'' cute.
Frances used excellent slides which are shared [[Community Data Science Workshops (Fall 2014)/Day 2 lecture|on the wiki page]] and which we will reuse. About half found the lecture either too fast or too slow and about half found the lecture to be just right.
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* Diversity of projects inspires people to do the kinds of things that people can do with this new knowledge.
We should pursue other ways to encourage creativity with code. For
example, we might give participants creative/flexible moments within sessions and lectures might be empowering in similar ways. We can also continue to call out participants who are doing creative things.
== Budget ==
We spent a total of $3280 on the CDSW. We spent approximately $280 on coffee. About $350 of this funded food and refreshments during post-session meetings among the mentors. About $
The rest (the large majority) was spent on food. Because were better able to model retention this time around, we did a much better job of ordering the "right" amount of food. We ordered:
* Session 1: Pizza from Jet City Pizza
* Session 2: Indian (four
* Session 3: Greek food (e.g., salad, hummus, spinach pies, souvlaki) from Costas
Because [[Mako]] did the ordering, everybody ate vegetarian. At least one person complained about the lack of
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