Starter Project for New Data Analysts and Data Scientists

[akhaleghi]

Dependency

Discuss how this integrates with Hack for LA plans to engage new data scientists and get them working on productive projects.

Overview

CoP lead proposed developing a starter project using a toy data set to help new recruits understand various tasks and allow mentors to provide useful feedback based on deeper understanding of the project and data set.

Action Items

• Determine what skills should be used in the starter project. Possibilities include:
  • Data cleaning
  • Documentation (i.e. adding structured context)
  • Technologies (i.e. Jupyter, Python, numPy, SQL,,etc.)
  • Summary of findings
• Collect useful resources and documentation for recruits to refer to
• Select data set(s) to be used for project
• Create notebook with step-by-step instructions
• Get feedback from CoP

Resources/Instructions

[akhaleghi]

Cancelled plans to do this based on convo with Bonnie.