DSCC

This is the page for the Data Science in Communication Collective.

TODO

 * Fill out Wikipage
 * Get accounts on community data blog
 * Make introductory blog post
 * Plan workshops
 * Get mailing list
 * Get sub directory word-press from Mako for ordinary web page.
 * Get twitter handle
 * Talk to students in content analysis - they might do automated content analysis.

Planned Blog Post

 * Panama Papers Social Network Analysis - data preparation (Matthew)
 * Panama Papers Visualizing Social Network (Matthew)
 * Panama Papers Network Statistics (Matthew)
 * Change.org - scraping - API (Nate)
 * Change.org - language filtering - API / Parallelism (Nate)
 * Change.org - spam filtering - API (Nate)
 * Change.org - topic modeling - Machine Learning (Nate)
 * Change.org - signature prediction - Pandas / Machine Learning (Nate)
 * Markov Chain Twitter Bot Tutorial - API / Machine Learning (Nate)
 * Hashtag Network Visualization (Matthew)

Plan Workshops
Tuesday 12:30 - 1:30


 * Send email to CDSW students.
 * Send email to Internet Research Methods students.
 * Python Tutor - review CDSW week 1.

Week 1
randomly assigning students to small groups, randomly assign students to give speeches in an order.

import random variable assignment difference between = and == lists - setting and accessing, range slices. for loops - doing something for each thing in the list.