CSCI 0931 : Intro to Computation for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Assignments

Handin Instructions

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HW2-2

Date	Topic	Class Materials	Assignment	Due Date	Extra Files
Introduction to Computation
Th 9/10	Liberal Media Bias [slides]	Missive	HW 0-1 HW 1-1 Collaboration Policy "On the Bias"	T 9/15
Spreadsheets: Assessing the Liberalness of U.S. Senators
T 9/15	Forming a Computational Problem & XML [slides]	Senate Vote Data ACT 1-1	HW1-2	Th 9/17
Th 9/17	Data Collection [slides]	ACT 1-1 cont.	HW1-3	T 9/22
T 9/22	Ranking Senators (1/2) [slides]	ACT 1-2 [solution]	HW 1-4	T 9/29
Th 9/24	Ranking Senators (2/2)[slides]	ACT 1-3 [solution]			Senate voting similarity chart on NYTimes.com
T 9/29	Discovering Patterns [slides]	ACT 1-4 (with starter) [solution] Project Example 1 Project Example 2	HW1-5	Th 10/1	www.data.gov Political Books
			Project 1 Project Rubric	(Proposal) T 10/6
			Project 1 Project Rubric	(Project) T 10/13
Textual Analysis in Python: Building a Concordance for a Text
Th 10/1	Textual Analysis & Intro to Python [slides]	GoogleNgrams Python 2.7.9 Oz Books	HW 2-1	T 10/6	Python Installation Tutorial
T 10/6	Your First Python Program [slides]	ACT 2-1 ACT2-1.py [sol.py] poem.txt Example.py	HW 2-2	Th 10/8
Th 10/8	Summary Statistics (1/2) [slides]	ACT 2-2 ACT2-2.py [sol.py] MobyDick.txt	HW 2-3	T 10/13	moby-starter.py
T 10/13	Summary Statistics (2/2) [slides]	ACT 2-3 ACT2-3.py [sol.py]	HW2-4	Th 10/15	HW2-4.py
Th 10/15	Vocabulary Size of Moby Dick [slides]	ACT 2-4 ACT2-4.py [finished.py] functionErrors.py	HW 2-4	T 10/20
T 10/20	Python Dictionaries[slides]	ACT 2-5 ACT2-5.py [sol.py]	HW 2-5	Th 10/22	HW2-5.py
Th 10/22	Project 2[slides]	Text Data Sources DataImport.py SCOTUS concordance example	HW 2-6	T 10/27	HW2-7.py
			Project 2 Project Rubric	(Proposal) F 10/30	Example_Skeleton.py
				(Project Update) F 11/6
				(Project) Su 11/15
T 10/27	User Input, Reading Online Data, String Functions [slides]	ACT 2-6 ACT2-6.py [sol.py]	HW 2-7	Th 10/29
Th 10/29	Determining Authorship [slides]	ACT 2-7 ACT2-7.zip [solution]	HW 2-8	T 11/03
Regex and Other Tools
T 11/3	Regular Expressions [slides]	ACT 3-1 ACT3-1.py poem.txt regexpal.com			PythonRE
Th 11/5	More Regular Expressions [slides]	ACT 3-2 Plain Text Dictionary Dict. Words Dict. Word Fetcher RE Tester	HW3-1	T 11/10	HW3-1.py casey.txt
T 11/10	Finishing Regular Expressions [slides]	ACT 3-2 (cont) pip.py
Th 11/12	Google Earth [slides]	ACT 3-3 Google Earth CIT.kml gecoords.py Find your color
T 11/17	Final Project [slides]	Project Example 1 Project Example 2 Project Example 3	Final Project Project Rubric	(Proposal) T 11/24
T 11/17	Final Project [slides]	Project Example 1 Project Example 2 Project Example 3	Final Project Project Rubric	(Project) W 12/9
Th 11/19	Twitter and While Loops [slides]	tw1.py tw2.py twcol.py	HW3-2	T 12/1	twparse.py kmlgen.py getCoords.py twcol.py
Putting It All Together
T 11/24	SQL 1 [slides]	ACT3.5-1
Th 11/26	No Class (Thanksgiving)
T 12/1	SQL 2 [slides]	ACT3.5-2
Th 12/3	Python Odds & Ends [slides]
T 12/8	Project Workshop
Th 12/10	Final Project Presentations