Applied research & capstone

Slides

Schedule

10:00 AM – 3:00 PM ET · 255 min content · 45 min breaks + lunch

1. 10:00
   Day 3 recap + show-and-tell from Days 2-3 (3-4 pre-selected participants)Discussion
   15 min
2. 10:15
   Force multiplier framing: APIs, drafting, ideation, brief mention of scrapingLecture
   15 min
3. 10:30
   API demos back-to-back: FRED in R (data pull + plot) + OpenAI text classification in PythonLecture
   25 min
4. 10:55
   API exercise: choose your track (FRED/CrossRef/Census, or OpenAI on workshop data)Workshop
   30 min
5. 11:25
   BreakBreak
   15 min
6. 11:40
   Drafting prose with Claude: collaboration vs. ghostwriting; what to delegate; reproducibility implicationsLecture
   20 min
7. 12:00
   Drafting exercise: take a Day 2 result + draft 2 paragraphs about it (own data preferred)Workshop
   25 min
8. 12:25
   LunchBreak
   30 min
9. 12:55
   BYOP framing: pick one of three scaffolded options or your own thing (cleaning pipeline / robustness refactor with worktrees / API-driven extension)Lecture
   10 min
10. 1:05
    Applied capstone session 1Workshop
    60 min
11. 2:05
    Mid-session check-in: progress reactions + 'if stuck, try X' reframingDiscussion
    10 min
12. 2:15
    Applied capstone session 2Workshop
    30 min
13. 2:45
    Participant share-out: 4-5 participants share what they accomplishedDiscussion
    10 min
14. 2:55
    Closing: 30-day plan + resources + signup CTALecture
    5 min

Materials

• 30-day planavailable

  Distributed in the 2:55 closing.

• Hall/Straus replication audit (Day 4 pre-read)available

  Emailed 48 hours before Day 4. Sets up the BYOP capstone with awareness of where Claude drifts.

• API examples (FRED, OpenAI, CrossRef, Census)coming soon

  Copy-paste templates for the 10:55 API exercise.