Greetings fellow data scientists!
Thanks for an inspiring weekend programming!
1. We’ve posted a survey on sessions 0 and 1 that asks for information we’ll use to plan the next session. Please do take the time to give us feedback: https://forms.gle/LwV4Ec2kbkqtYN1V9
2. The next session will focus on web APIs. Don’t worry if you don’t know what API is—the morning lecture will explain it all!
In the afternoon, you’ll have 3 options to practice using web APIs: Wikipedia, Twitter, or Yelp. If you plan to join Twitter or Yelp sessions, please work on the setup *before* Saturday:
https://wiki.communitydata.science/Twitter_authentication_setup https://wiki.communitydata.science/Yelp_API_Key
3. If you can find the time, it might be useful to practice programming over the coming week. If you didn’t do the additional LearnPython lessons linked from the tutorial, you might enjoy those. If you didn’t finish all of the Baby Names challenges, those might be fun and helpful.
If you’re interested in seeing examples of worked solutions that I made for the problems in the Baby Names Jupyter notebook, you can find the answers and the questions all in this Notebook:
https://github.com/makoshark/babynames-cdsw-solutions/blob/master/babynames-...
If you want to download these and try it 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”) on this page:
https://github.com/makoshark/babynames-cdsw-solutions/
If you were in the group that worked through different challenges, you might still find the experience of trying to read my Python code to be helpful. If you worked on the problems, your solutions will likely be different, and that’s OK! Programming is creative and expressive and there are many valid paths and approaches!
4. If you're interested, we've uploaded a video of the morning lecture which you can find on these pages:
https://communitydata.science/~mako/cdsw-wi2020-pre_lecture-20200118.ogv https://communitydata.science/~mako/cdsw-wi2020-lecture1-20200118.ogv
5. We found a gray/green scarf in one of the classrooms. Please contact me if you lost a scarf during the last session.
We’ll be in touch at least once more before we meet again on February 1st!
Regards, Mako