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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): although the particular curriculum has diverged quite a bit at this point as we've improved it and tailored it to the learning goals in our sessions. 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:
 
* '''Morning, 10am-noon12:20''': A 2 hour lecture
* '''Lunch, noon12:20-1pm'''
* '''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 1230 mentors volunteerwho initiallyattended althoughat moreleast joinedone asof the eventsessions progressedand at least 20 mentors at each of the sessions.
 
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 just over 5080 participants.
 
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.
Our feeling was that nearly every student who came to the first week (Sessions 0 and 1) came to Session 2. Retention between the second two sessions was much worse with perhaps only 60% of the full group returning for Session 3. We attribute this rentention to poor timing (the weekend before finals at UW which affected many students) and to the long space between the sessions.
 
We collected detailed feedback from users at three points using the following Google forms (these are copies):
 
* [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1gPmgZvOxfE0KVRkb_ySgTqNvCaa4Rl8PYUY9u1mJpLwobsSpxz4do99wyZWPc-NVwTEZ3FMF9NS6IfzTEeOXUc/viewform Application to the workshop]
* [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FGASnZLA3V13JTuJg5LF0fVvrUX9quKYc95yeEATzHY1rCgNZSJ0tBqIXUgKgtgKlrshVC3I7q6y9of1hL5isPE/viewform After Session 1]
* [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1UhEU3aWKSuLpfBgR8CZcW8JrdgNRDj6FuT8yAqFCFmE1RJTTwXe2O_C1ZAtMgWRLGXVc-tRpY76NbvorLg644MQ/viewform After Session 2]
* [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. We did not collect feedback after the final session but we should have.
 
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