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