Sarah Brown

Invite disability disclosure in the IT training pre-event communications

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## 1. Invite participants to disclose a disability We can invite participants to disclose any disabilities which may impair their ability to participate in the training as part of the...

plain text all in one page version

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Could we add a plain text "view" that is toggled like the instructor/learner maybe? or somewhere else have an all in one page, plain text version that is rendered using...

data set switching in pandas section

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The SAFI_results.csv dataset is used in the openrefine lesson and in much of the analysis in this lesson, but just for the first two parts of pandas, it uses the...

context appropriate exercise on functions

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the [exercise in the functions episode](https://github.com/datacarpentry/python-socialsci/blob/gh-pages/_episodes/04-reusable.md#exercise) has learners compute math that's not on topic. It is a good exercise in that it is self contained, requires no unrelated programming knowledge,...

while vs for loops?

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Is there a reason to introduce while loops beofore for loops? There is also more content on while loops than for loops. I think for loops are more common; while...

The syntax of the variable names is different in this lesson than openrefine and what is listed on the [data reference page](http://www.datacarpentry.org/socialsci-workshop/data/). Some copies of it have alphanumeric prefixes on...

using the dropna method with parameters eg (subset=[varlist]) can get the same result and introduces fewer separate functions

This makes the code excerpts more complete, but also makes it harder to read as an intstructor and unclear if it's the same dataset or if it's a continued example

iloc indexing by rows gets a little in the weeds, in general, indexing by column name is most used and filtering rows by criteria is more common, the amount of...

Some context on why to use random state would help (eg that it's for reproduciility)