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.