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Final CDSW Session: TOMORROW Saturday 2/15
by Benj. Mako Hill 14 Feb '20

14 Feb '20

Greetings programmers! Just a reminder that we're on for the final day(!) of the CDSW this TOMORROW, Saturday February 14th. We'll cover putting things together and starting analysis and visualization. We'll be creating a space for review for folks who want time to catch up or review. We're planning on afternoon tracks including plotting data using Python and spreadsheets, civic data from data.seattle.gov, independent work on your own projects guided by mentors, and a CDSW review space! We'll meet again in Savery 260 at 9:45 on Saturday morning. Details on directions and logistics are all online at the normal place: https://wiki.communitydata.science/CDSW_Winter_2020 We'll also have Community Data Science stickers, coffee, and báhn mì! Regards, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill http://mako.cc/academic/ Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto

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Preparing for the final Community Data Science Workshop Session on Saturday (2/15)
by Benj. Mako Hill 09 Feb '20

09 Feb '20

Greetings fellow data scientists! Our third and final session is coming up! This time around we’re planning a mix of topics focused on giving folks a chance to review and reinforce the material we’ve covered and to build toward some new skills focused on visualizing data to ask and answer questions. Saturday’s morning lecture will go over how we can take data we obtained via web APIs and visualize them. We’ll introduce a few final new concepts but mostly the focus will be on putting things together we covered in the previous session. In the afternoon, you’ll have 3 options that each build toward creating data visualizations and asking/answering questions of data: A) visualizing Seattle city data; B) project-based mentoring on topics/questions you suggest; and C) CDSW Review Café where you’ll get more hands on practice with the concepts and challenges introduced during day 0, 1, and 2 as we incorporate some examples of visualization. 1. We’ve posted a survey on Session 2 that asks for information which we’ll use to plan the next session. Please take the time to give us feedback: https://forms.gle/6j45guLm9a1ANNFX9 2. If you are interested in participating in Option B on project-based mentoring of topics of your choice, please fill out this very short one question form to tell us what you’d like to work on by Wednesday 5PM PST: https://forms.gle/Jj2vHfz3RzEQYmjh8 3. If you are interested in participating in the CDSW Review Café, please fill out this form to help us prepare: https://forms.gle/J7hjzRgDHyDThRxR9 4. We’ve posted solutions to many of the challenges in the projects: Worked solutions to the Yelp challenges from Jason, Ivan, and Mako are available online here: https://github.com/CommunityDataScienceCollective/yelp-api-cdsw-solutions Worked solutions from Nate to a number of the Wikipedia challenges are here: https://github.com/CommunityDataScienceCollective/wikipedia-cdsw-answers We’ll be following up with solutions to Twitter later in this week. Apologies for the delay! If you want to download these and try them on your computer (there is a “Clone or Download” button on the side which will let you download them all if you click on “Download ZIP”). If you were in the group that worked through different challenges, you might still find the experience of trying to read our Python code helpful. Even if you worked on these problems, your solutions will likely be different, and that’s OK! Programming is creative and expressive and there are many valid paths and approaches! 5. We now have 2 beautiful scarves that were left behind during the last two sessions. Please contact me if you’ve lost a scarf (or two!). We’ll be in touch at least once more before meeting again on February 15th! We know that this has been challenging and home Saturday will be an opportunity to have fun as you get to hone both your programming skills and creativity! Regards, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill https://mako.cc/academic/ Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto

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Final reminder about mandatory pre-workshop tasks for Twitter and Yelp afternoon sessions!
by Benj. Mako Hill 29 Jan '20

29 Jan '20

Greetings programmers! The organizers have been working really hard to put together great set of workshops this coming Saturday! We're looking forward to seeing you all then! This is a final reminder that if you plan to attend the afternoon sessions on Saturday that are involved in either Twitter or Yelp, you MUST complete the steps on these pages BEFORE SATURDAY: Twitter: https://wiki.communitydata.science/Twitter_authentication_setup Yelp: Nhttps://wiki.communitydata.science/Yelp_API_Key If you want the option of going to both session, you must do both. The back-story is that using either Twitter or Yelp requires applying for access and having your application reviewed and approved by the company. If you do not apply days in advance, you will not be able to participate in the Twitter or Yelp sessions on Saturday afternoon. We'll explore more on Saturday. We will *also* be running a parallel session on using data from Wikipedia. This session does not require any special access so anybody who does not apply in advance so everybody who shows up will be able to work on this afternoon session. We're looking forward to seeing you all on Saturday morning at 9:45am! Regards, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill https://mako.cc/academic/ Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto

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Workshops this weekend!
by Benj. Mako Hill 26 Jan '20

26 Jan '20

Greetings! Just a final reminder that the Community Data Science workshops start this evening in just a few hours! Our first meeting is TONIGHT (Friday January 17th) to install software and to start learning the basics of programming and Python. Tonight, we will meet in the Communications building (CMU) Room 104 at UW 6:00 to 9:00 PM. The session will be work-at-your-own-pace and is *not* likely to take full three hours for most people. If you can't get there right at 6pm, that's OK. Tomorrow (Saturday morning), we will meet at 9:45AM in Savery Hall Room 260. Lunch and afternoon sessions will also be in Savery. Please don't be late! The organizers and I have put some basic logistic information online here and will be updating this page as the workshops progress: https://wiki.communitydata.science/CDSW_Winter_2020 I look forward to seeing you all tonight! Later, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill https://mako.cc/academic/ Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto

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Welcome to the Community Data Science Workshops Winter 2020 mailing list
by Benj. Mako Hill 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

Greetings soon-to-be programmers and data scientists! This email is being sent through a new email list we've created for the upcoming Community Data Science Workshops which you will be participating in! If this email went to your promotions or spam folder, you should move the email out and try to "whitelist" future email from the cdsw-wi2020-attendees(a)communitydata.science email list and/or from me. Future announcements will go *only* to this email list and it’s important that you see these messages. I'm going to send one "welcome" and "you're accepted" email to each of you individually but that will be the last direct communication. The rest will come through this list. As always, details on the workshops are online at our website: http://wiki.communitydata.science/CDSW_Winter_2020 We're all super excited to be working with you over the next few weeks! Regards, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill https://mako.cc/academic/ Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto

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