[School-of-data] What I learned from working on School of Data

[Lucy Chambers]

+1 Tom and thanks to everyone for their feedback. 

Yes exactly, as I mentioned on of the posts will be about teaching. One of the observations I made during this period is exactly this point: 

> One of the keys [...] is the huge difference it makes having accomplished people around you who help rather than write you off when you screw stuff up.

That was how Data Expeditions were born to force people to mingle in the teams... More on that later! 

If anyone has any other techniques for helping to ensure an environment where people have access to friendly people who are more technical than them, I would love to hear them! 

Thanks all, 

Lucy


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> [1] http://techtohuman.com/5_in_5_people/#techies
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>> On 12 Mar 2015, at 08:12, Heather Leson <heatherleson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks Lucy!
>> 
>> I like to call people like us - hubs, bridges and matchmakers who help people navigate information in a human way.
>> 
>> Welcome to the blogging addicition. Keep it up.
>> 
>> heather
>> 
>> Heather Leson
>> heatherleson at gmail.com
>> Twitter: HeatherLeson
>> Blog: textontechs.com
>> 
>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 5:34 PM, Anna Kuliberda <anna.kuliberda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Lucy,
>> Thanks for this, it's great and really useful especially since I struggle with similar questions and issues all the time :)
>> best wishes from Sarajevo!
>> anna
>> 
>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Lucy Chambers <lucy at fedia.net> wrote:
>> Hi there folks,
>> 
>> Looking at the list archives, I'm not sure that my "I'm moving on from
>> School of Data"[1] message came through to the list so apologies if this
>> comes out sequence.
>> 
>> I've had a lovely month off winding down from work and have had time to
>> do some writing on what I learned working at Open Knowledge and
>> particularly on School of Data. I'm sending it along in case it is of
>> interest!
>> 
>> This first post is about people and is entitled: “Why I deleted the word
>> ‘techie’ from my vocabulary” - http://techtohuman.com/5_in_5_people/
>> 
>> #longread warning.
>> 
>> There is a part which is particularly pertinent to School of Data, if
>> you would like to jump straight to that:
>> 
>> http://techtohuman.com/5_in_5_people/#techies
>> 
>> Which focusses on the decision for the Open Knowledge School of Data
>> team to focus on tech skills below a code ceiling, and whether that was
>> a good idea, and whether a code ceiling even exists.
>> 
>> One of the next posts I want to write is on teaching, so I am keen for
>> any feedback on whether the framing I use here makes sense to people, as
>> I suspect the topic will rear its head again in the next post!
>> 
>> Thank you as ever,
>> 
>> Lucy
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