Analysis of the Data Carpentry’s Archived Pre- and Post-Workshop Survey

Authors: Kari L. Jordan and Paula Andrea Martinez
Published: September 2017

Summary

Data Carpentry is continually developing our Assesment efforts. On July 25th, 2017, Paula Andrea joined Kari L. Jordan to work on producing visualizations of the archived pre- and post-workshop survey data.

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## [1] "data/preworkshop_public_archived.csv"
## [1] "Data contains 2343 rows and 34 columns"
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## 2016 2017 
## 1358  985

## 
##   No  Yes 
##  120 1943

## 
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##               80               61               59               80 
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##          Physics    Public Health   Space Sciences       Statistics 
##               34               32                5               49 
##     Tech Support 
##               40

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##                     267

## 
##              I am working on generating data 
##                                          361 
##                       I do not have data yet 
##                                          518 
##  I have data and done a fair bit of analysis 
##                                          557 
## I have data but haven't started analyzing it 
##                                          423

## 
##             Agree          Disagree           Neutral    Strongly agree 
##               590                 9                60              1135 
## Strongly disagree 
##                58

## 
##             Agree          Disagree           Neutral    Strongly agree 
##               589                11               306               895 
## Strongly disagree 
##                43

## 
##   No  Yes 
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## 
##  Yes   No 
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## 2016 2017 
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## 
##             18-24             25-34             35-44             45-54 
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##             18-24             25-34             35-44             45-54 
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##             55-64             65-74 Prefer not to say 
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## 2016 2017 
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## 
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##      900      602      367 
## 
##  Yes   No 
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## 
## Apple OS    Linux  Windows Not sure 
##      749       65     1006       52 
## 
##  Yes   No 
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## 
## Apple OS    Linux  Windows Not sure 
##      769       67     1036       53 
## 
## 2016 2017 
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## 
##             18-24             25-34             35-44             45-54 
##               210               579               250               133 
##             55-64             65-74 Prefer not to say 
##                72                12                23

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##            Female              Male Prefer not to say         No Answer 
##               717               540                22                28
## 
##      Yes       No Not sure 
##      604      415      267 
## 
##            Female              Male Prefer not to say         No Answer 
##               711               540                22                13

## 
##         American Indian or Alaskan Native 
##                                         2 
##                  Asian / Pacific Islander 
##                                       290 
##                 Black or African American 
##                                        56 
##                        Hispanic or Latino 
##                                        57 
## Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander 
##                                         1 
##                         White / Caucasian 
##                                       735 
##                         Prefer not to say 
##                                        81 
##                                     Other 
##                                        42 
##                                 No Answer 
##                                        43

## [1] "data/postworkshop_public_archived.csv"
## [1] "Data contains 1081 rows and 44 columns"
## 
## 2016 2017 
##  602  478

## 
## Enthusiastically involved         Somewhat involved 
##                       347                       149 
##             Very involved 
##                       512

## 
##             A great deal                     None Some practical knowledge 
##                      585                        6                      418
## 
##             A great deal Some practical knowledge                     None 
##                      584                      417                        6 
## 
##             Very involved Enthusiastically involved 
##                       512                       346 
##         Somewhat involved 
##                       149

## 
##                           Agree                        Disagree 
##                             362                              28 
## NA/Not covered at this workshop                         Neutral 
##                              81                             161 
##                  Strongly Agree               Strongly Disagree 
##                             311                              22

## 
##                           Agree                        Disagree 
##                             247                              31 
## NA/Not covered at this workshop                         Neutral 
##                             215                              85 
##                  Strongly Agree               Strongly disagree 
##                             351                              31

## 
##                           Agree                        Disagree 
##                             107                              70 
## NA/Not covered at this workshop                         Neutral 
##                             521                              96 
##                  Strongly Agree               Strongly disagree 
##                              97                              63

## 
##                           Agree                        Disagree 
##                             108                              78 
## NA/Not covered at this workshop                         Neutral 
##                             526                             105 
##                  Strongly Agree               Strongly disagree 
##                              76                              65

## 
##                           Agree                        Disagree 
##                             281                              32 
## NA/Not covered at this workshop                         Neutral 
##                             159                              74 
##                  Strongly Agree               Strongly Disagree 
##                             391                              30

## 
##                           Agree                        Disagree 
##                             307                              26 
## NA/Not covered at this workshop                         Neutral 
##                             163                              73 
##                  Strongly Agree               Strongly disagree 
##                             361                              30

## 
##                           Agree                        Disagree 
##                             208                              52 
## NA/Not covered at this workshop                         Neutral 
##                             334                             106 
##                  Strongly Agree               Strongly disagree 
##                             203                              45

## 
##                           Agree                        Disagree 
##                             267                              32 
## NA/Not covered at this workshop                         Neutral 
##                             190                             120 
##                  Strongly Agree               Strongly disagree 
##                             313                              27

## 
##                 High                  Low Neither high nor low 
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##            Very high             Very low 
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##            Very high                 High Neither high nor low 
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## 
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## 
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##                14
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##                14 
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##                       139

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##                18

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##                 9

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##                 9 
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##                2 
## 
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## 
##  No Yes 
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## 
##             18-24             25-34             35-44             45-54 
##                66               205                65                30 
##             55-64             65-74 Prefer not to say 
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## 
##            Female              Male Prefer not to say         No Answer 
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