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

Assignments

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Date	Topic	Class Materials	Assignment	Due Date	Extra Files
Introduction to Computation
Th 1/22	Liberal Media Bias [slides]	Missive	HW 0-1 HW 1-1 Collaboration Policy "On the Bias"	T 1/29
Spreadsheets: Assessing the Liberalness of U.S. Senators
T 1/27	No Class (Snow Day)
Th 1/29	Forming a Computational Problem & XML slides]	Senate Vote Data ACT 1-1	HW1-2	T 2/3
T 2/3	Data Collection [slides]	ACT 1-1 cont.	HW1-3	Th 2/5
Th 2/5	Ranking Senators (1/2) [slides]	ACT 1-2 [solution]	HW 1-4	W 2/11
T 2/10	Ranking Senators (2/2) [slides]	ACT 1-2 cont. ACT 1-3			Senate voting similarity chart on NYTimes.com
Th 2/12	Discovering Patterns [slides]	ACT 1-3 cont. ACT 1-4 (with starter) Project Example 1 Project Example 2	HW1-5	Th 2/19	www.data.gov Political Books
			Project 1 Project Rubric	(Proposal) Th 2/19
			Project 1 Project Rubric	(Project) S 3/1
T 2/17	No Class (President's Day weekend)
Textual Analysis in Python: Building a Concordance for a Text
Th 2/19	Textual Analysis & Intro to Python [slides]	GoogleNgrams Python 2.7.9 Oz Books	HW 2-1	T 2/24	Python Installation Tutorial
T 2/24	Your First Python Program [slides]	ACT 2-1 ACT2-1.py [sol.py] poem.txt Example.py	HW 2-2	Th 2/26
Th 2/26	Summary Statistics (1/2) [slides]	ACT 2-2 ACT2-2.py [sol.py] MobyDick.txt	HW 2-3	T 3/3	moby-starter.py
T 3/3	Summary Statistics (2/2)[slides]	ACT 2-3 ACT2-3.py [sol.py]	HW2-3B	Th 3/5	HW2-3B.py
Th 3/5	Vocabulary Size of Moby Dick [slides]	ACT 2-4 ACT2-4.py [finished.py] functionErrors.py	HW 2-4	T 3/10	HW2-4.py
T 3/10	Python Dictionaries [slides]	ACT 2-5 ACT2-5.py [sol.py]	HW 2-5	Th 3/12
Th 3/12	Project 2 [slides]	Text Data Sources DataImport.py SCOTUS concordance example	HW 2-6	Th 3/17	HW2-6.py
			Project 2 Project Rubric	(Proposal) 3/20	Example_Skeleton.py
				(Project Update) 4/3
				(Project) 4/12
T 3/17	User Input, Reading Online Data, String Functions [slides]	ACT 2-6 ACT2-6.py [sol.py]	HW 2-7	Th 3/19
Th 3/19	Determining Authorship [slides]	ACT 2-7 ACT2-7.zip
T 3/24	No Class (Spring Break)
Th 3/26	No Class (Spring Break)
Regex and Other Tools
T 3/31	Regular Expressions [slides]	ACT 3-1 ACT3-1.py poem.txt regexpal.com			PythonRE
Th 4/2	More Regular Expressions [slides]	ACT 3-2 Plain Text Dictionary Dict. Words Dict. Word Fetcher RE Tester	HW3-2 (3-1 was cancelled)	T 4/7	HW3-2.py casey.txt
T 4/7	Finishing Regular Expressions [slides]	ACT 3-2 (cont) pip.py
Th 4/9	Google Earth [slides]	ACT 3-3 Google Earth CIT.kml gecoords.py Find your color
T 4/14	Twitter and While Loops [slides]	tw1.py tw2.py twcol.py	HW3-4(once again no 3-3)	4/21	twparse.py kmlgen.py getCoords.py twcol.py
Putting It All Together
Th 4/16	Final Project [slides]	Project Example 1 Project Example 2 Project Example 3	Final Project Project Rubric	(Proposal) T 4/21
Th 4/16	Final Project [slides]	Project Example 1 Project Example 2 Project Example 3	Final Project Project Rubric	(Project) M 5/4
T 4/21	Project Workshop
Th 4/23	Python Odds and Ends [slides]	easygui Examples nltk Examples
T 4/28	Project Workshop
Th 4/30	Rising Computing Applications [slides]
T 5/5	Last Class Day!