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Website and home repository for GLAM Data Science Network
https://glamdatasci.network/
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Feedback needed: make the network yours! #2

Closed jezcope closed 2 years ago

jezcope commented 3 years ago

Ok, so the network website is now up and running, but that's just the start of it. I really need your input to help understand how to make the network as inclusive and useful as possible.

A couple of things I'd specifically like feedback on are:

  1. Does the welcome message on the home page feel like it's speaking to you? If not, why not?
  2. What do you want from the network? What would help you develop your data science/analysis/statistics skills?

Any and all feedback is welcome: please reply here (signing up for GitHub only takes a few seconds) or message me on Twitter or Mastodon.

mialondon commented 3 years ago

Congratulations! Getting this far is an achievement in itself

For the front page, I'd add a some lines on 'what do we mean by data science?' and 'why statistics?' because it might not be obvious to everyone.

mialondon commented 3 years ago

I know how hard it is to change a project mid-stream around the disruption of COVID. You want to honour the previous thinking but also need to (sometimes radically) update plans.

With that in mind, I'd separate the 'how the project got here' bits (which are a great example of transparency) from the 'what next' bits. Having that historical information is great, but putting text together across different documents to understand what concrete actions and outputs you're currently planning is hard.

Questions I had include: where are the learner hours coming from - are you planning on running events, or directing people to existing courses? What does joining the network mean in concrete terms? What can people do to help you build the network? How will you show (not tell) relevant work?

And going back to specific updates - after commenting on github, what are the next calls to action, and can you put them on the front page?