What to Expect
The course will be very hands-on and cover a variety of topics that will ultimately allow you to:- Practice solving real world problems by learning to use new tools and applying familiar ones -- like Excel -- in new ways
- Gather data from the web
- Learn about and create algorithms that analyze large amounts of data
- Create web-based interfaces
- Become proficient in a scripting language
General Info
Class Location: CIT room 167 (The MS Lab).Class Time:Tuesday, Thursday 2:30-3:50PM
CRN: 14513
Coursework
The expected coursework will be a mixture of homeworks, and projects. The course projects will be drawn from current problems that researchers in the humanities and social sciences are tackling. Examples of such problems are:- Analyzing voting blocs in the Senate
- Performing a textual analysis to study the usage of proper nouns in American novels
- Using census data and Google Earth to map information regarding Brown students
Questions?
Email the TAs at cs0931tas@cs.brown.edu
or email the whole staff at cs0931headtas@cs.brown.edu
Email the TAs at cs0931tas@cs.brown.edu
or email the whole staff at cs0931headtas@cs.brown.edu