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* | * We'll walk through the concepts and solutions to the [[DS4UX_(Spring_2016)/Day_3_coding_challenge|code challenges]] from last week as a group. | ||
*[[DS4UX_(Spring_2016)/Day_4_lecture|Day 4 lecture]] - background of web APIs; requesting web pages with <code>requests</code>, JSON, and writing to files. | *[[DS4UX_(Spring_2016)/Day_4_lecture|Day 4 lecture]] - background of web APIs; requesting web pages with <code>requests</code>, JSON, and writing to files. | ||
* We'll begin working on [[Community Data Science Course (Spring 2015)/Wikipedia API projects|a series of projects using the Wikipedia API]]. | * We'll begin working on [[Community Data Science Course (Spring 2015)/Wikipedia API projects|a series of projects using the Wikipedia API]]. | ||
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* Python for Informatics: [http://www.pythonlearn.com/html-009/book013.html Chapter 12 Networked programs] and [http://www.pythonlearn.com/html-009/book014.html Chapter 13 Using Web Services] | * Python for Informatics: [http://www.pythonlearn.com/html-009/book013.html Chapter 12 Networked programs] and [http://www.pythonlearn.com/html-009/book014.html Chapter 13 Using Web Services] | ||
=== Week 5: April 25 === | === Week 5: April 25 === | ||
Revision as of 04:29, 27 March 2016
Week 1: March 28
- Assignments due
- fill out the pre-course survey
- Agenda
- Quick introductions — Be ready to introduce yourself and describe your interest and goals in the class.
- Why Programming and Data Science for UX Research? — What this course is about
- Class overview and expectations — We'll walk through this syllabus.
- Group formation — We'll assemble in our peer programming groups for the first time.
- Installation and setup — You'll install software including the Python programming language and run through a series of exercises.
- Interactive lecture: programming concepts 1
- Self-guided tutorial and exercises — You'll work through a self-guided tutorial to practice the basic concepts we introduced in the lecture.
- Homework
- Complete Self-guided tutorial and exercises (if you didn't finish this in class).
- Complete CodeAcademy lessons
- Resources
- Python for Informatics: Preface and Chapter 1 Why should you learn to write programs?
Week 2: April 4
- Agenda
- We'll walk through answers to the concepts and code challenges from last week as a group.
- Interactive lecture
- Homework
- Complete the second set of CodeAcademy lessons
- Work on the Week 2 coding challenges
- Resources
- Python for Informatics: Chapter 2 Variables, expressions and statements and Chapter 3 Conditional execution
Week 3: April 11
- Agenda
- We'll walk through the concepts and solutions to the code challenges from last week as a group.
- Day 3 lecture
- Baby names exercises
- Homework
- Resources
- go here
Week 4: April 18
- Agenda
- We'll walk through the concepts and solutions to the code challenges from last week as a group.
- Day 4 lecture - background of web APIs; requesting web pages with
requests, JSON, and writing to files. - We'll begin working on a series of projects using the Wikipedia API.
- Homework
- Resources
- Python for Informatics: Chapter 12 Networked programs and Chapter 13 Using Web Services
Week 5: April 25
- Assignments due
- Agenda
- Day 5 lecture - visualizing web data
- Introduction to Jupyter notebooks
- graphing data with matplotlib
- Homework
- Python quiz #5
- Day 5 coding challenges
- Resources
- go here
Week 6: May 2
- Agenda
- Day 6 lecture - querying databases
- Homework
- Resources
- go here
Week 7: May 9
- Assignments due
- Agenda
- Day 7 lecture - corpus analysis
- Coding challenges
- Resources
- go here
Week 8: May 16
- Agenda
- Day 8 lecture - statistics with scipy
- Coding challenges
- Resources
- go here
Week 9: May 23
- Agenda
- Day 9 lecture - research study design
- review of key concepts and tools from this course
- presentation workshop
- Resources
- go here
Week 10: May 30
- Assignments due
- Agenda
- Day 10 lecture - Final project report review, next steps for Data Science
- Final project presentations
Week 11: June 6
FINALS WEEK - NO CLASS
- Assignments due
- Final project report and code due by midnight on Wednesday, 6/8/2016
