Community Data Science Workshops (Fall 2014)/Reflections: Difference between revisions

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== Participants ==
 
We had 30 mentors who attended at least one of the sessions and at least 20 mentors at each sessions. Many of our mentors were UW students in more technical departments like [https://www.cs.washington.edu/ Computer Science and Engineering] and [[https://www.hcde.washington.edu Human Centered Design and& Engineering]]. MostPerhaps half of them worked outside of the wereuniversity fullas timesoftware programmersdevelopers.
 
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 80 participants.
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