Schedule
Assigned readings, activities, and projects are linked below. All work is due on the date in the same row as the required reading or activity. If you encounter a dead link then give me holler!
| Date | Topic/Theme | Critical Readings | Technical Readings | Due by Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08/29 (Thur) | Introduction | |||
| 09/02 (Mon) | No Class. College Closed. | |||
| 09/03 (Tue) | What is Data Science? | Data 8: What is Data Science? (Ch. 1.1-1.2) | —Join Hypothesis group via invite link & annotate readings | |
| 09/05 (Thur) | Navigating Command Line | Melanie Walsh: (1) The Command Line (2) How to Use Jupyter Notebooks | —Annotate reading | |
| 09/10 (Tue) | Data Feminism | D’Ignazio & Klein: Why Data Science Needs Feminism | —Annotate reading | |
| 09/12 (Thur) | What is Python? | Walsh: Anatomy of a Python Script | ||
| 09/17 (Tue) | Digital Humanities 2.0 | (1) Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0 (2) Ted Underwood: Seven ways humanists are using computers to understand text | —Annotate reading | |
| 09/19 (Thur) | Data Types & String Methods | Walsh: (1) Data Types (2) String Methods | ||
| 09/24 (Tue) | Metaphors of Data | Annette Markham: Undermining ‘data’ | ||
| 09/26 (Thur) | Computational Thinking | Jeanette Wing: Computational Thinking | Walsh: Comparisons & Conditionals | |
| 10/01 (Tue) | GitHub as a Platform | Nadia Eghbal: GitHub as a Platform, Working in Public (file in Discord #announcements) | —Sign up for GitHub | |
| 10/03 (Thu) | No classes scheduled | |||
| 10/08 (Tue) | Lists & Loops | Walsh: Lists and Loops | Activity 1: Building Blocks | |
| 10/10 (Thu) | Batteries Included | Walsh: (1) Functions (2) Common Python Errors | ||
| 10/15 (Tue) | No Classes Scheduled - Monday Schedule | |||
| 10/17 (Thu) | Python Jeopardy! | Activity 2: Python Primer | ||
| 10/22 (Tue) | Against Cleaning | Rawson & Muñoz: Against Cleaning | ||
| 10/24 (Thur) | Cleaning Data | Alice Zhao: Data Cleaning | ||
| 10/29 (Tue) | (Re)Humanizing Data | Anelise Hanson Shrout: (Re)Humanizing Data: Digitally Navigating the Bellevue Almshouse | —Annotate reading(s) | |
| 10/31 (Thur) | Practicing Pandas | Walsh: Panda Basics I | ||
| 11/05 (Tue) | Data Visualized | Basic data visualizations | Walsh: Panda Basics I (cont’d) | |
| 11/07 (Thur) | Data Ethics | VPRO Documentary: Shoshana Zuboff on Surveillance Capitalism (Optional) | Walsh: Users’ Data | Activity 3: Practicing Pandas |
| 11/12 (Tue) | Distant Reading | Stephen Ramsay: The Hermeneutics of Screwing Around; or What To Do With a Million Books | —Annotate reading | |
| 11/14 (Thur) | Digital Hermeneutics | Walsh: TF-IDF with HathiTrust Data | Activity 4: Writing Docs | |
| 11/19 (Tue) | Sentiment Analysis | Simone Rebora: Sentiment Analysis in Literary Studies: A Critical Survey | Walsh: Sentiment Analysis | |
| 11/21 (Thur) | Network Analysis | Walsh: Network Analysis | —Explore Social Network Datasets | |
| 11/26 (Tue) | Network Visualization | Walsh: Interactive Network Visualization | ||
| 11/28 (Thur) | No Class. College Closed. | Activity 5: Data Visualization | ||
| 12/03 (Tue) | Reddit API Workshop | Reddit Data | ||
| 12/05 (Thur) | Coworking Lab | |||
| 12/10 (Tue) | Lightning Talks | Send slides by Sun | ||
| 12/12 (Thur) | Lightning Talks | Send slides by Tue | ||
| 12/18 (Wed) | Last day to submit work | Final: Social Coding Portfolio | ||
| Last updated: 2024 Sep 26 (9:09pm) |