Schedule
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Updated: 04/08/2024
| Date | Topics | Readings | Technical Readings | Due by Class | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 01/25 (Thu) | Introductions | ||||
| 01/30 (Tue) | What is data science? | Data 8: What is data science (Chapter 1.1 and 1.2) Ted Underwood: Seven ways humanists are using computers to understand text | DHRI: Installing GitBash | |||
| 2 | 02/01 (Thu) | Command Line | Melanie Walsh: The Command Line | Download GitBash for Windows user If you cannot get to a terminal, try Google Cloud Shell. | ||
| 02/06 (Tue) | Whose data science? | Data Feminism: Introduction: Why data science needs feminism Feminist data manifest-no | DHRI: Installing Python (and Anaconda) | |||
| 3 | 02/08 (Thu) | Stages of data, Jupyter notebook and Interacting with Python | DHRI: Data literacies 01 - 03 | Melanie Walsh: How to use Jupyter notebooks; Anatomy of a python script DHRI: Interacting with Python | Download Anaconda. If you cannot download Anaconda and python, try using Google Colab. Here’s a short orientation on Google Colab. | |
| 02/13 (Tue) (Snow day; meet online) | Installing Python and Anaconda | Installing Python (and Anaconda) | ||||
| 4 | 02/15 (Thu) | Data types, Comparisons, and Variables | Melanie Walsh: Python data types; Variables Data 8: Comparisons | |||
| 02/20 (Tue) | Data types, Comparisons, and Variables | Melanie Walsh: Python data types; Variables Data 8: Comparisons | ||||
| 5 | 02/22 (Thu) | No Class. CUNY Monday. | ||||
| 02/27 (Tue) | String method and Debugging | Aditya Mukerjee: I Can Text You A Pile of Poo, But I Can’t Write My Name | Melanie Walsh: String methods; Common python error | |||
| 6 | 02/29 (Thu) | Lists and For loops | Melanie Walsh: Python Lists and Loops | |||
| 03/05 (Tue) | For loops II, and Conditionals | DHRI: Conditionals Melanie Walsh: Python Lists and Loops (Cont.) | Activity 1 | |||
| 7 | 03/07 (Thu) | Functions | Melanie Walsh: Functions | |||
| 03/12 (Tue) | Functions and review | Melanie Walsh: Functions | ||||
| 8 | 03/14 (Thu) | Data in context; Introducing Pandas - Getting started with data analysis | Heather Krause: Data biographies - Getting to know your data | Melanie Walsh: Panda Basics – Part 1 (Dataset to Calculate Summary Stastics) Melanie Walsh: Missing data | ||
| 03/19 (Tue) | Pandas: Data cleaning | DRI: Basic data cleaning; Rename, select, drop, and add new columns | Activity 2 | |||
| 9 | 03/21 (Thu) | Pandas: Data cleaning | DRI: Basic data cleaning; Rename, select, drop, and add new columns | |||
| 03/26 (Tue) | Pandas: Data cleaning II | DRI: Sort columns, Groupby Columns, & Count values | ||||
| 10 | 03/28 (Thu) | Pandas: Data cleaning II | DRI: Sort columns, Groupby Columns, & Count values; Basic data visualizations | |||
| 04/02 (Tue) | In-class activity: Practicing with the refugee by arrivals dataset | Basic data visualizations; Write to csv | ||||
| 11 | 04/04 (Thu) | Statistics in the humanities | Jamelle Bouie: We Still Can’t See American Slavery for What It Was (pdf); John Canning: Statistics for humanities, pp. 7-22 (pdf) | W3 Schools: Mean, Median, Mode | ||
| 04/09 (Tue) | Understanding the spread and sampling | John Canning: Statistics for humanities, pp. 23-36 (pdf) Data 8: Assessing a model | ||||
| 12 | 04/11 (Thu) | Understanding relationships | Data 8: Causality and experiments John Canning: Statistics for humanities, pp. 75-85 (pdf) | The PyCoach: A Simple Guide to Linear Regression using Python (pdf) | Activity 3 | |
| 04/16 (Tue) | Sentiment Analysis | Melanie Walsh: Sentiment Analysis | ||||
| 13 | 04/18 (Thu) | Sentiment Analysis | Melanie Walsh: Sentiment Analysis | |||
| 04/23 (Tue) | No Class. Spring break. | Activity 4 | ||||
| 14 | 04/25 (Thu) | No Class. Spring break. | ||||
| 04/30 (Tue) | No Class. Spring break. | |||||
| 15 | 05/02 (Thu) | Class cancelled. | ||||
| 05/07 (Tue) | Data storytelling (Online) | Jackie Mansky: W.E.B. Du Bois’ visionary infographics come together for the first time in full color Ben Schmidt: Gendered language in teacher reviews; FAQ; Nick DeSantis: How reviews on ‘Rate My Professors’ describe men and women differently (pdf) Hannah Anderson and Matt Daniels: Film dialogue from 2,000 sceenplays, broken down by gender and age | ||||
| 16 | 05/09 (Thu) | Activity 5 & Consultation day (Online) | ||||
| 05/14 (Tue) | Class cancelled. | |||||
| 05/21 (Tue) | Last day for all submissions. | Activity 5 & Semester Reflection |