action items from Curriculum Advisors

[ErinBecker]

The Social Sciences CAC ([email protected]) met June 15th and 19th to discuss the full Social Sciences curriculum and provide recommendations to the Maintainers about work for these lessons between now and their publication (September 2018). Their specific action items for this lesson are as follows:

• Evaluating the way that JSON is taught in the Python lesson
• Adding section about ordinal data to both R and Python

Please see the meeting minutes for more details.

[ErinBecker]

Comment on JSON for SocSci data (from @gboushey)

I just saw your email about teaching JSON as part of social sciences. Looks like it's a no-reply email address, so I figured I'd send you some notes directly - I occasionally teach a JSON/Api through python workshop at UCSF. It goes through dictionaries, JSON, tree structures, recursion, and api calls (using some web services from the national library of medicine, since we are a med school). Its actually pretty nice to get to use a data source that (I hope!) people will be able to start using in their research right away. Not sure how much of this will be useful to social sciences, but feel free to send it around to anyone interested.

[annajiat]

Manipulation of JSON data is indeed useful. However, there is a possibility that it might be too advanced for social sciences. JSON API could be a good addition as optional exercise or reference materials for advanced learners.