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