Goals Today

• quick discuss the Day 8 problem set
• kickstart our work on project proposals
• start to think about the upcoming midterm: (Day 17, 2014-03-18)
• prepare for plotting/map discussion on Day 12.

Answers to Day 8 A Metro Diversity published

Day_08_B_Metro_Diversity.ipynb

As I announced on bCourses this weekend, you might benefit from studying a less abstract calculation of entropy_rice, which I present in Day_11_A_Explicit_Entropy_Calc.ipynb

Course Github Organization

Fill out What's your github account handle? so that AJ or I can add you to our course github organization: Working with Open Data 2014. We'll then be able to create repositories visible to the class only that we can use for your individual and project work.

Project Proposals

Due: Friday, March 14, 2014 11:59pm.

Write a 1-2 page proposal on how your group (of 2-3 team members) will conduct a thorough analyses of some open dataset or datasets. Use the following template for your proposal:

• Title
• Group members
• Problem Statement
• What open data sets might you be working with?
• Possible ties to Wikipedia (or any Wikimedia related projects)?
• What challenges do you anticipate running into?
• What skills will a team need to develop to solve this problem?

Project Brainstorming

To help us brainstorm and refine ideas and to start forming team:

Project Ideas and Team Formation for WwOD 2014, aka http://bit.ly/wwod14projgdoc

Don't forget documents we have on the go:

• WwoD14 TOC
• Some Project ideas
• In-class notes
• What do people want to learn (from Day 1)
• Topic: What you hope to learn and accomplish in the course?

I need you all to advocate for your own interests, questions, and what you want to learn.

Upcoming Midterm

• The upcoming midterm: (Day 17, 2014-03-18). It will probably consist of mostly multiple choice questions.

• Over the next weeks, we'll be using bCourses and quizzes to review fundamentals and to drill concepts.

• Do the simple practice quiz: Day 11 Practice Quiz: Working with Open Data

Preparing for Day 12: Plotting/Mapping

• Read Chapter 8 of PfDA and make sure you can run nbviewer.ipython.org/github/rdhyee/working-open-data-2014/blob/master/notebooks/Day_11_B_Setting_Up_for_PfDA.ipynb.

You can sign up for a short class co-taught by Dav Clark and Raymond Yee (March 5): Javascript Visualization | D-Lab. We'll cover some of the same material in this class, but Dav is a great teacher.

In Class Activity

Focus:

• get some project idea and team formation going: bCourses Collaboration: Project Ideas and Team Formation

Assignments / Homework

• Start working on your project proposal
• Setup your github handle and fill out What's your github account handle?
• Do the simple practice quiz: Day 11 Practice Quiz: Working with Open Data
• Read Chapter 8 of PfDA and make sure you can run nbviewer.ipython.org/github/rdhyee/working-open-data-2014/blob/master/notebooks/Day_11_B_Setting_Up_for_PfDA.ipynb.