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’   —Annotate reading
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” from Working in Public, (Read: PDF in Discord via #announcements)   —Sign up for GitHub
10/03 (Thu) No classes scheduled      
10/08 (Tue) READme.md   Walsh: Lists and Loops Activity 1: Building Blocks
10/10 (Thu) Lists and Loops   Walsh: Lists and Loops (cont’d)  
10/15 (Tue) No Classes Scheduled - Monday Schedule      
10/17 (Thu) Batteries Included   Walsh:
(1) Functions
(2) Common Python Errors
 
10/22 (Tue) Against Cleaning Rawson & Muñoz: Against Cleaning   Activity 2: Python Primer
10/24 (Thur) Cleaning Data   Alice Zhao: Data Cleaning Complete Against Data Cleaning Worksheet
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: Pandas Basics I  
11/05 (Tue) Class Canceled   Get out & vote!  
11/07 (Thur) Election Debrief Review: Election Results Vizualization    
11/12 (Tue) Data Biographies Jessica Marie Johnson: Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads   Activity 3: Practicing Pandas (Due by end of week)
11/14 (Thur) Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Dataset   Walsh: Pandas Basics II  
11/19 (Tue) Distant Reading Stephen Ramsay: The Hermeneutics of Screwing Around; or What To Do With a Million Books Experiment with Voyant-Tools.org  
11/21 (Thur) Network Analysis Primer on Network Analysis Walsh: Network Analysis Activity 4: Writing Docs
11/26 (Tue) Interactive Data Vizualizations   Walsh: Interactive Network Visualization  
11/28 (Thur) No Class. College Closed.     —Explore Social Network Datasets
12/03 (Tue) Reddit API Workshop   Reddit Data  
12/05 (Thur) Coworking Lab     Activity 5: Data Visualization
12/10 (Tue) Coworking Lab      
12/12 (Thur) Lightning Talks      
12/18 (Wed) Last day to submit work     Final: Social Coding Portfolio
        Last updated: 2024 Nov 19 (1:01am)

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