Program Impact

A look at who Data Best Practices serves and how the community rates the program.

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At a Glance
Workshops
352
Total attendances
4.84
Quality of instruction
4.84
How much learned
Courses
33
Total enrollments
4.60
Quality of instruction
4.27
How much learned

Ratings are mean survey responses on a 1–5 scale, where 5 is strongly agree.

Workshops
Attendances by Role and Affiliation
Ratings
Question Mean
How would you rate the quality of instruction? 4.84
How much did you learn? 4.84
My questions during the workshop were answered 5.00
The material presented was useful for my foundational education with data 4.95
The material presented was useful for my research and/or classes 4.84
I would be interested in attending additional workshops 4.95
I would recommend these workshops to other colleagues 4.95
FOR LAB-SPECIFIC WORKSHOP ATTENDEES: The workshop was useful for my lab's research 5.00

Mean response on a 1–5 scale, where 5 is strongly agree and 1 is strongly disagree, representing 69 self-reported workshop attendances. Workshops began in February 2024. This survey was distributed by a third party not associated with Data Best Practices, after two years of programming. Attendees rated the workshop series as a whole, so each person counts once regardless of how many workshops they attended.

Stanford Courses
Enrollments by Student Level and School
Courses Included
  • Data Best Practices: Basics (BIOS 436 / NSUR 286)
  • Data Best Practices: Computation (BIOS 437 / NSUR 288)
Ratings
Question Mean
How well did you achieve the learning goals of this course? 4.29
How much did you learn from this course? 4.27
Overall, how would you describe the quality of the instruction in this course? 4.60
How organized was the course? 4.85

Mean response on a 1–5 scale, where 5 is strongly agree and 1 is strongly disagree, across 17 enrollment(s). Courses began in the Winter 2026 academic term. Evaluations are distributed by Stanford at the end of each academic term. Students rate a specific course in a specific term, pooled here across all offerings.