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Skills We Can Teach

  • D3 -- Lam Friday
  • Video basics -- Lam Friday
  • UX, UI design, design thinking, game design, concepts of designing interfaces for machine learning, and baking. -- Caroline

  • conceptual stuff around journalism: reporting and writing, visual storytelling, how to find stories within data, how to tell them visually, dataviz theory (materials are here: http://lamivo.com/tips.html) -- Lam

  • video and audio storytelling (from shooting, to editing, to linear storytelling)

  • basic scraping of Facebook, gmail .mbox files, Twitter feeds (and I know how to get access to text messages via spyware) -- Lam

  • misc front-end dev (what Cathy said!) -- Lam

  • Intro to R -- Amanda

  • Basics of Git, SSH, Secure Communication -- Amanda

  • Basics of Python -- Amanda

Logan

  • Practical machine learning in Python -- how to start finding clusters and making predictions from a dataset, and why you (probably) don't want to use a neural network
  • EE related things, depending on interest (soldering, fabricating a printed circuit board, talking to SPI peripherals from a microcontroller or a raspberry pi, etc)
  • How to use the 3D printers (super easy, super quick session)
  • Numerical computing with NumPy and Julia

Cathy

  • git & github
  • sql
  • regular expressions
  • setting up your python dev environment (since I just did this & it's fresh in my mind :P)
  • intro to some useful python libraries: csvkit, pandas, requests
  • misc web dev things: bootstrap, jquery, django, highcharts, leaflet, underscore

Saito

street projection, projection mapping integration of practice into community groups, political groups and DIY spaces processing scraping/analyzing/responding/generating text from geo-located twitter feeds

We Want To Learn

  • Wilderness First Aid
  • social media scraping, intro to python for machine learning and parsing! pretty much that. -- Caroline
  • semantic analysis amanda is working on NLTK
  • statistical analysis 😳 via python, SQL, regex
  • R

scraping instagram computational graphic design (rapid icon generation, rapid layout generation) automatic projection mapping

  • hardware generally, raspberry pi

  • sending/receiving/processing SMS

  • twitter bots

  • marketing & outreach

  • Making web visualizations with D3.js

  • Qualitative research process / how to run user studies

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