Benson // w1d1

Winter 2015
01/12/2015

Planned schedule and activities

9:00 am: pre-class housekeeping

• Arrive at WeWork Metis, 79 Madison, get keycard and access at 2nd floor front desk
• Come find the classroom on 3rd floor. If you're lost, you can text Leah for help at 315-521-6341
• Enjoy amazing premium coffee from our pour over coffee station
• Create a github account if you don't already have one. Edit the Blogs and Github Accounts post to include your github username in the Administrivia thread

9:30 am: introductions / welcome to the bootcamp

• Introductions w/ special guest Leah and Lillian
• Student introductions
• Overview of policies (attendance, etc), administrivia
• Overview of class structure, materials/resources
• Charting our progress
• Get super pumped

short break

10:45 am: what is data science? what do data scientists do?

• data science projects
• data science process
• dimensions of data science and our bootcamp curriculum

11:30 am: more github

• clone the github repo:
• open up your terminal
• go into (or create) a directory of your choosing
• in your terminal, type: git clone https://github.com/metis-dsbc/secret
• you will submit your work (challenges, project deliverables) to this repository.
• set up and walk though:
• Discourse
• Slack

12:00 pm: LUNCH

1:30 pm: The Hipster Game

• head count and optional search party for lost class members wandering the mean streets of Manhattan
• The Hipster Game

short break

3:30 pm: Set up blogs

• Octopress setup. Follow this tutorial.
• Here is a Markdown tutorial in case you already want to get started with fancier looking posts.
• Write a first post

5:00 pm-ish: class dismissed

Lecture Notes

Slides about being a data scientist and how we'll get there (2.2 MB)

Policy Highlights (96.1 KB)