HCDS (Fall 2017)/Assignments



Assignments are comprised of weekly in-class activities, weekly reading reflections, written assignments, and programming/data analysis assignments. Weekly in-class reading groups will discuss the assigned readings from the course and students are expected to have read the material in advance. In class activities each week are posted to Canvas and may require time outside of class to complete.

Unless otherwise noted, all assignments are due before 5pm on the following week's class.

Unless otherwise noted, all assignments are individual assignments.

Assignment timeline

 * Weekly: In-class activity output posted to Canvas (group or individual)
 * Weekly: Reading reflections posted to Canvas (individual)


 * A1 (due Week 3): Data privacy (programming/analysis)
 * A2 (due Week 4): Data curation (programming/analysis)
 * A3 (due Week 5): Sources of bias in data (programming/analysis)
 * A4 (due Week 6): Final project plan (written)
 * A5 (due Week 7): Auditing algorithms (programming/analysis, written)
 * A6 (due Week 9): Crowdwork ethnography (written)
 * A7 (due Week 11): Final project presentation (oral, written)
 * A8 (due by 11:59pm on Sunday, December 10): Final project report (programming/analysis, written)

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