Table 2.
Selected comments from surveys conducted after each session.
| Positive | Constructive | |
|---|---|---|
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I am totally new to workbench, but the information was very useful and engaging. Looking forward to learning a lot. | It will be better for me when I catch up with everyone and use Chrome instead |
| I am excited to do the demonstration work and to get unstuck with analysis! | This learning level is intermediate, it's not for beginners. | |
| Conducive learning environment and supportive facilitators. | The presenter tried to explain it but the material was high level for a novice so I will need to review again. | |
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Thank you for this opportunity. I greatly appreciate it! | Live demo using the RW in addition to the slide show will be better |
| This was great! One of the best ones I have attended. Jun you are really great at explaining what is happening and how to navigate the workbench and why. | The pacing was pretty wonky for this lesson—I think it would make sense to ask participants to be prepared in certain ways before starting the class (eg, make sure everyone has the demo workspace duplicated so that we can all build the dataset together and spin up the computing environment together). It was also a bit confusing to have a set of slides that laid out the lesson but then the slides are too complicated/detailed to properly understand as participants, so we have to go through the slides and then go back to then have the presenter or various participants share their screens to walk back through the steps. | |
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Homework exercises would be a good way to proceed | (comment from session 5) Putting the R and python codes side by side would have been more helpful to me. Like the way the first session was conducted |
| Very informative and helpful. I thought the level of detail and pace were great! The slides were very detailed and easy to follow | Thank you. Overall, the resources provided will be very helpful for getting going with Workbench but attending the sessions alone was not sufficient. Will take a great deal more work reviewing all the session videos and resources on my won. | |
| These sessions are slowly improving my understanding of the WB—thanks for organizing |