Topics Class Materials Assignment Extra Files Out Due Solution

Voting Patterns

Liberal-ness of U.S. senators

 Missive
Collaboration Policy
Slides		 Homework 1-1 ExcelBasics.xlsx 09/08/11 09/13/11 -

Formulation of a computational problem

 Slides
Senate Website		 Homework 1-2
Account Setup		 ExcelBasicsII.xlsx 09/13/11 09/15/11 -

Data collection

 Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 3
XML 1
XML 2
XML 3
XML 4
XML 5
AllVotes.xlsx 		Homework 1-3 GradeSheet.xlsx 09/15/11 09/20/11 -

Ranking senators' liberal-ness

 Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 3
Class4Starter.xlsx		 Homework 1-4 Hw4Starter.xlsx 09/20/11 09/22/11 -

Ranking senators' liberal-ness

 Activity 1
Activity 2
Indirect Example
Class5Starter.xlsx		 Homework 1-5 - 09/22/11 09/27/11 -

Discovering Voting Patterns

 Multiplication
Class6Starter.xlsm		 Google Site - 09/27/11 10/04/11 -

Publishing Results

 Class7Starter.xlsx
Voting Patterns
Bad Websites!		 Project Sample brief description 09/29/11 10/02/11
brief description10/04/11
proposal
10/11/11
final		 -
Topics Class Materials Assignment Extra Files Out Due Solution

Textual Analysis

Introduction to Python

 Activity 1 Homework 2-1 - 10/04/11 10/06/11 -

Functions

 MobyDick.txt Homework 2-2 HW2-2Starter.py 10/06/11 10/11/11 -

Interpreting Python Programs

 slides Homework 2-3 - 10/11/11 10/13/11 -

Conditionals and Iterations

 slides Homework 2-4 HW2-4.py 10/13/11 10/18/11 -

Vocabulary Size of Moby-Dick

 Python Review Homework 2-5 HW2-5.py 10/18/11 10/20/11 -

Vocabulary Size of Moby-Dick

 slides Homework 2-6 HW2-6.py 10/20/11 10/25/11 -

Dictionary and Regular Expression

 starter code
ebooks
regex exercise		 Homework 2-7 HW2-7.py 10/25/11 10/27/11 -

Building a concordance

 slides
concordance.py		 Homework 2-8 HW2-8Starter.py 10/27/11 11/01/11 -
- - Project - - 11/03/11 proposal
11/15/11 final		 -
Topics Class Materials Assignment Extra Files Out Due Solution

Information Mining

Introduction to the Twitter API

 pycurl
twitter streamer
slides		 - - 11/01/11 - -

Understanding JSON

 sample data
twitter-analyze.py
slides		 Homework 3-2 HW3-2.py 11/03/11 11/08/11 -

Hypothesis Testing

 slides Homework 3-3 - 11/08/11 11/10/11 -

Brand Rivalries

 slides
data
3-4Starter.py		 Homework 3-4 - 11/10/11 11/15/11 -

Visualization

 slides
start.kml
something awesome		 Homework 3-5 - 11/15/11 11/17/11 -

Visualization

 - Homework 3-6 HW3-6Starter.py 11/17/11 11/22/11 -

Exloration

 - Final Project - 11/22/11 11/29/11
proposal
12/13/11
final		 -

Review

 3-8Starter.py
3-8Final.py		 Final Project - 11/29/11 - -

Reading CSV files in Python - Converting zip codes to coordinates

 3-9.py
fake database
slides
zip code database		 Final Project - 12/01/11 - -
Review Final Project - 12/6/11 - -