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* '''Session 3 (Saturday November 22nd)''': [[Community Data Science Workshops (Fall 2014)# Session 3|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)
* '''Morning, 10am-
* '''Lunch,
* '''Afternoon, 1pm-3:30pm''': Practice working on projects in 3 breakout sessions
* '''Wrap-up, 3:30pm-4pm''': Wrap-up, next steps, and upcoming opportunities
We had
We had about 150 participants apply to attend the sessions. We selected on programming skill (to ensure that all attendees were complete beginners), enthusiasm, and randomly to maintain a learner to mentor ratio of between 4 and 5. We admitted
Retention between session and 0 and 1 was nearly 100%. Retention between sessions 1 and 2 and sessions 2 and 3 was probably 75% and similar learning us with perhaps 55-60% retention at the end of session 3.
We collected detailed feedback from users at three points using the following Google forms (these are copies):
* [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/
* [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/
* [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/
* [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-BngUwkEmephM2xLl3Ews2LnopF3sI7hlgYhQK4YJL4/viewform After Session 3]
* [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1v2gNpPSY3gjJ9G_PZgmjt2YZTBz6XxA6-lLUzDKWfMg/viewform After Session 3 (Unretained)] — Unsurprisingly, perhaps, not a single person filled this out so we likely will not bother with this in the future.
We used this feedback to both evaluate what worked well and what did not and to get a sense of what students wanted to learn in the next session and which afternoon sessions they might find interesting
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