Skill Share Roundup

Skills We Can Teach

Queued Up

• D3 -- Lam
• Python data munging w/ pandas and friends + machine learning with sklearn -- Logan + Cathy, after Lam is back from NY
• How to use the 3D printers (super easy, super quick session) -- Logan

TK

• UX, UI design -- Caroline
• design thinking -- Caroline
• game design -- Caroline
• designing interfaces for machine learning -- Caroline
• baking. -- Caroline
• conceptual stuff around journalism: reporting and writing, visual storytelling, how to find stories within data, how to tell them visually -- Lam
• 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 -- Lam
• Intro to R -- Amanda
• Basics of Git, SSH, Secure Communication -- Amanda
• Basics of Python -- Amanda
• 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 -- Logan
• EE related things, depending on interest (soldering, fabricating a printed circuit board, talking to SPI peripherals from a microcontroller or a raspberry pi, etc) -- Logan
• Numerical computing with NumPy and Julia -- Logan
• git & github -- Cathy (and Amanda)
• sql -- Cathy (and Amanda)
• regular expressions -- Cathy (and Amanda)
• setting up your python dev environment -- Cathy
• intro to some useful python libraries: csvkit, pandas, requests -- Cathy
• misc web dev things: bootstrap, jquery, django, highcharts, leaflet, underscore -- Cathy
• street projection, projection mapping -- Saito
• integration of practice into community groups, political groups and DIY spaces -- Saito
• processing -- Saito
• scraping/analyzing/responding/generating text from geo-located twitter feeds -- Saito

We Want To Learn

• Wilderness First Aid
• social media scraping
• intro to python for machine learning and parsing!
• 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
• Coming! Making web visualizations with D3.js
• Qualitative research process / how to run user studies

Done!

• Video basics -- Lam