Dad Joke
- Why did the nearsighted man fall in the well?
- He couldn’t see that well!
I have a few main goals for the class
- Provide a helpful, constructive, motivating space for you to work on learning and applying computational methods.
- Create a set of curated resources to share with each other and the world.
- Teach some best practices for doing computational work.
- Think about new ways to apply computational methods to social science problems.
Structure
- First weekly meetings
- Reproducible workflows + computational text analysis
- Later weekly meetings
- 2 topic presentations
- 2 work-in-progress presentations
Wiki
- Schedule
- Links to readings
- Curated list of resources
- Possibly better to put this on Github? Maybe after the class?
Element / Matrix
- Communciation
- Class sessions
- Announcements
- Coordination
- Discussion
- Help
- Download the apps!
Assignments
- Topic Exploration
- Final Project
Topic Exploration
- Curate a set of resources explaining the topic
- Ideally:
- Academic paper
- Explainer video / tutorial
- Useful Python librar(y|ies)
- Additional resources
- Post on the wiki (see my examples)
Presentations
- Topic presentations (~10 mins)
- Walk us through what you found, tell us how to navigate resources
- WIP presentation
- Present on where you’re at with your project
- Provide a document by Friday before presenting
- Tell us where to focus, what feedback would be helpful
Final Project - Paper option
- Advance a project you are working on using what you learn in this class
- Default option
- Jupyter notebook
- Short intro + Methods + Result section of paper
- Do what is best for your future goals
Final Project - Explainer option
- Take your topic exploration and make it amazing.
- Create resources to help others understand the topic and/or how to apply the method
- TikTok videos
- Blog posts
- Jupyter notebooks
- Etc.
Grades
- Goal is learning
- Two self-assessment reflections
Conversation
- What should we change to help you meet your goals?
- What computational text analysis topics are missing?
TODOs
- Learn how to edit the wiki
- Sign up for a topic (including text analysis)
- Sign up for two presentation days - one topic, one WIP