[Events] analysis of UMass OSCTC sign ups

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

Hi everyone,

We did a more labor-intensive publicity process for our latest event, so I
wanted to analyze our sign ups and see if the process helped.  I guess I
got a bit carried away.  :)

Write up<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UsbhELqO4EWOywylygAUI7m0u3UxbS_7tsAJ7T-LDOc/edit?usp=sharing>
Analysis<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoHP1ey91UqPdDNhZ0dheldVdU5fbkdtOGNRdmJ3S2c&usp=sharing>(raw
data redacted)

Basically - people who responded to my emails were much more likely to
come, but even those who didn't respond came in greater numbers than the
Wellesley event.
Also!  People who listed themselves as having less experience were more
likely to come as those who listed themselves as having more experience.
 Having more or less specific interests did not appear to influence
attendance rates.
Also also - women were 40% of sign ups.  They tended to report less
experience than men did and less specific interests.

Caveats:  I haven't error checked this at all so it's possible there are
errors.  Also it's a relatively low sample size so we can't draw too many
conclusions (and I didn't bother doing any tests of significance or
whatnot.)

Let me know if there are other questions you have that I could potentially
answer.
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