January 2020 - cdsw-wi2020-mentors - communitydata.science

CDSW Session #2 THIS Saturday (2/1)
by Benj. Mako Hill 01 Feb '20

01 Feb '20

Greetings generous mentors! Just a reminder that we are *on* for another set of sessions this coming Saturday February 1st. A number of the organizers are going to be out of town so we really do more mentors this coming Saturday! We were also on the lower side of mentors last week so please come if you can and feel free to bring a friend! The schedule is: * Lecture about APIs: Saturday 9:45-12:20pm in Savery Hall 260. * Lunch: Saturday 12:20-1pm in Savery Hall. * Projects: Saturday 1-4pm in in Savery Hall. The afternoon projects will be: - Twitter w/ Tommy and Dharma - Wikipedia w/ Nate - Yelp w/ Mika (& YOU?!) As is always the case, you are welcome to come to whatever you can. Basically, we need as many mentors as possible for the projects time in the afternoon afternoon. It is totally OK to just come for lunch. We are also looking for another person who can help run the session on Yelp. Mika has volunteered to do it but we need one person—maybe a more experienced programmer—who can help her. Running a session mostly involves (a) looking through the material before hand and plugging in your laptop to the projector, (b) walking through 1-2 worked solutions to start off the session before prompting people to work on modifying the programs in their Jupyter notebooks to solve a series of prompts or to explore, (c) stopping every 30 minutes or so to live-code a solution to one of the problems in a Jupyter notebook in front of everybody and to explain your approach as you do it. Mika will be there so she can help. If you've got a second on Thursday or Friday, it would probably be useful to to work through the tutorials for Session 2 on the wiki page and to update places you see references to Jupyter notebooks, and so on: http://wiki.communitydata.cc/Community_Data_Science_Workshops_(Winter_2020) That's it for now! Thank you all so much for your generous help! 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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Last minute advice about mentoring
by Benj. Mako Hill 18 Jan '20

18 Jan '20

Greetings and good morning! For those that didn't make it last night... We had a great setup session! We're using Jupyter Notebooks as the main interface this round and the consensus at the debrief was that—despite some roughness caused by our material being a little out of sync in a few places (mostly fixed by Kaylea in real time)—the switch to Jupyter has really made a number of things easier! Thank you everybody who showed up! We put together this short webpage with advice for mentoring: https://wiki.communitydata.science/Mentoring If you are mentoring for the first time, or even if you are an old-hand, you might benefit from looking it over. I look forward to seeing a few of you this morning in Savery Hall 260 and many more of you for lunch on the ground floor of Savery at 12:20. Regards, Mako <quote who="Benj. Mako Hill" date="Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 03:12:47PM -0800"> > Greetings generous mentors! > > Our first two CDSW sessions are coming up this weekend (i.e., Friday > 1/17 and Saturday 1/18). Here is the basic schedule: > > * Setup: Friday 6-9pm in Communications (CMU) 104 at UW > * Lecture: Saturday 9:45-12:20pm in Savery Hall 260. > * Lunch: Saturday 12:20-1pm in Savery Hall. > * Projects: Saturday 1-4pm in in Savery Hall. > > You are welcome to come to whatever you can. Basically, we need as > many mentors as possible for the projects time on Saturday afternoon. > > For lectures and the setup period, we need mentors, but a smaller > number. Basically, if you're at all on the fence about getting up > early on Saturdays or giving up your Friday evening, don't worry about > it and just come for lunch on Saturday. If you do come on Friday (or > at all on Saturday) we'll take folks out for dinner and drinks. > > Details and logistics are all online here: > > http://wiki.communitydata.cc/Community_Data_Science_Workshops_(Winter_2020) > > This is also where the tutorials are. If you notice issues or bugs you > can fix, just go ahead and edit the wiki. > > We are making a bigger set of changes this round by moving away from > writing Python in a text editor and running it in a terminal toward > doing all the writing and running within a Jupyter notebook so some of > is in in flux as we rework our curriculum to reflect this. > > We're trying to nail that down by the end of tonight. Testing tomorrow > would be very welcome. If you notice important problems you'd like to > discuss, please reply to this email. > > Later, > Mako > 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 > _______________________________________________ > cdsw-wi2020-mentors mailing list -- cdsw-wi2020-mentors(a)communitydata.science > To unsubscribe send an email to cdsw-wi2020-mentors-leave(a)communitydata.science -- 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 CDSW Mentors!
by Benj. Mako Hill 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

Greetings generous mentors! Our first two CDSW sessions are coming up this weekend (i.e., Friday 1/17 and Saturday 1/18). Here is the basic schedule: * Setup: Friday 6-9pm in Communications (CMU) 104 at UW * Lecture: Saturday 9:45-12:20pm in Savery Hall 260. * Lunch: Saturday 12:20-1pm in Savery Hall. * Projects: Saturday 1-4pm in in Savery Hall. You are welcome to come to whatever you can. Basically, we need as many mentors as possible for the projects time on Saturday afternoon. For lectures and the setup period, we need mentors, but a smaller number. Basically, if you're at all on the fence about getting up early on Saturdays or giving up your Friday evening, don't worry about it and just come for lunch on Saturday. If you do come on Friday (or at all on Saturday) we'll take folks out for dinner and drinks. Details and logistics are all online here: http://wiki.communitydata.cc/Community_Data_Science_Workshops_(Winter_2020) This is also where the tutorials are. If you notice issues or bugs you can fix, just go ahead and edit the wiki. We are making a bigger set of changes this round by moving away from writing Python in a text editor and running it in a terminal toward doing all the writing and running within a Jupyter notebook so some of is in in flux as we rework our curriculum to reflect this. We're trying to nail that down by the end of tonight. Testing tomorrow would be very welcome. If you notice important problems you'd like to discuss, please reply to this email. 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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