The lecture schedule will be updated as the term progresses.

Week 0 - Pre-course

Make sure to fill out the pre-course survey that is available on Slack.

Make sure you are registered for the course Gradescope, JupyterHub and Slack.

Week 1 (05/03) - Working with Text in Python and Bash

Weekly Readings - Due Fri, May 7, 2021 - Overleaf Template

• How we do things with words: Analyzing text associal and cultural data Nguyen, D., Liakata, M., DeDeo, S., Eisenstein, J., Mimno, D., Tromble, R., & Winters, J. (2020). How we do things with words: Analyzing text as social and cultural data. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 3, 62.
• Text as Data: An Overview. Benoit, Kenneth. (2020). In Curini, Luigi and Robert Franzese, eds. Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations. Thousand Oaks: Sage. pp461-497.

Weekly Homework - Due Tue, May 11, 2021

• HW01 - Grade Level of Presidential Addresses

Date	Topic	Reading	Tutorial
Mon, May 3, 2021	Lecture 1 Course Overview Command Line [slides] [empty notebook] [completed notebook]	Cultural Analytics Textbook, Chapter 1: The Command Line	Tutorial 1.1 - Python Bootcamp (Due Tue, May 4, 2021)
Tue, May 4, 2021	Lecture 2 Python Overview [slides] [empty notebook] [completed notebook]	Cultural Analytics Textbook, Chapter 2: Python Basics	Tutorial 1.2 - 2016 Miami Presidential Debate (Due Wed, May 5, 2021)
Wed, May 5, 2021	Lecture 3 Regex Numpy Pandas [slides] [empty notebook] [completed notebook]	Hovy (Textbook), "Chapter 3 Regular Expressions" Dive into Data Science, Chapter 2 - Numpy and BabyPandas
Thu, May 6, 2021	Lecture 4 Pandas Matplotlib [slides] [empty notebook] [completed notebook]	Dive into Data Science, Chapter 3 - Visualization	Tutorial 1.3 - Google Store App Reviews with Pandas (Due Fri, May 7, 2021)
Fri, May 7, 2021	Deadline to Add Summer A Courses

Week 2 (05/10) - Words, Words, Words: the base unit of analysis

Weekly Readings - Due Sun, May 16, 2021 - Overleaf Template

Date	Topic	Reading	Tutorial
Mon, May 10, 2021	Lecture 5 What is a word? [slides] [empty notebook] [completed notebook]	Hovy (Textbook), Chapter 2: What’s in a Word? Cultural Analytics Textbook, Part of Speech Tagging	Tutorial 2.1 - Text Processing (Due Tue, May 11, 2021)
Tue, May 11, 2021	Lecture 6 Document Representation [slides] [empty notebook] [completed notebook]	Hovy (Textbook), Chapter 5.1: Enter the Matrix; Chapter 5.2: Discrete Representations Cultural Analytics Textbook, TF-IDF
Wed, May 12, 2021	Lecture 7 Dictionary-based Methods TF-IDF [slides] [empty notebook] [completed notebook]	Hovy (Textbook), Chapter 4: Pointwise Mutual Information Hovy (Textbook), Chapter 5.2.4: Dictionary-based methods
Thu, May 13, 2021	Lecture 8 Language Modeling, n-grams, & Word Representations Dictionary-based Methods [slides] [empty notebook]	Hovy (Textbook), Chapter 8: Language Models	Tutorial 2.2 - Dictionary-based methods (Due Thu, May 20, 2021)

Week 3 (05/23) - Topic Modeling

Weekly Readings - Due Mon, May 24, 2021 - Overleaf Template

• Chapter 4: Historical Documents, Applications of Topic Models Boyd-Graber, J. L., Hu, Y., & Mimno, D. (2017). Applications of topic models (Vol. 11). now Publishers Incorporated.
• Chapter 5: Understanding Scientific Publications, Applications of Topic Models Boyd-Graber, J. L., Hu, Y., & Mimno, D. (2017). Applications of topic models (Vol. 11). now Publishers Incorporated.
• Chapter 6: Fiction and Literature, Applications of Topic Models Boyd-Graber, J. L., Hu, Y., & Mimno, D. (2017). Applications of topic models (Vol. 11). now Publishers Incorporated.
• Chapter 7: Computational Social Science, Applications of Topic Models Boyd-Graber, J. L., Hu, Y., & Mimno, D. (2017). Applications of topic models (Vol. 11). now Publishers Incorporated.

Weekly Homework - Due Wed, May 26, 2021

• HW02 - Analyzing Obituaries with TF-IDF

Date	Topic	Reading	Tutorial
Mon, May 17, 2021	Deadline to Drop Summer A Course
Mon, May 17, 2021	Open Hours (Gauri)
Tue, May 18, 2021	Lecture 9 Reguar Expressions (Gauri) [slides]	Hovy (Textbook), Chapter 3 Regular Expressions
Wed, May 19, 2021	Lecture 10 Latent Dirichlet Allocation [slides]	Topic Modeling demo (David Mimno) Hovy (Textbook), Chapter 9: Topic Models
Thu, May 20, 2021	Lecture 11 Evaluating Topic Models [slides] [empty notebook] [completed notebook]	Boyd-Graber, Hu, Mimno, Chapter 3: Evaluation & Interpretation in Applications of Topic Models

Week 4 (05/24) - Data Collection

Weekly Readings - Due Sun, May 30, 2021 - Overleaf Template

Date	Topic	Reading	Tutorial
Mon, May 24, 2021	Lecture 12 Web Scraping [slides] [empty notebook] [completed notebook]	Online Textbook, Web Scraping 101 Casey Fiesler, Nathan Beard, Brian C. Keegan, No Robots, Spiders, or Scrapers: Legal and Ethical Regulation of Data Collection Methods in Social Media Terms of Service
Tue, May 25, 2021	Lecture 13 APIs: Twitter [slides] [empty notebook] [completed notebook]	Online Textbook, Collecting Twitter Data Dorothy Kim and Eunsong Kim, The #TwitterEthics Manifesto
Wed, May 26, 2021	Lecture 14 APIs: Reddit [slides] [empty notebook]	Online Textbook, Collecting Reddit Data Baumgartner, Jason, Savvas Zannettou, Brian Keegan, Megan Squire, and Jeremy Blackburn. 2020, The Pushshift Reddit Dataset
Thu, May 27, 2021	Lecture 15 Hypothesis Testing Text Classification Naive Bayes [slides]	Ani Adhikari and John DeNero, inferential Thinking, Testing Testing_Hypotheses Lena Voita, NLP Course, Text Classification Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft), Chapter 4: Naive Bayes and Sentiment Classification

Week 5 (05/31) - Machine Learning

Weekly Readings - Due Sun, Jun 6, 2021 - Overleaf Template

Weekly Homework - Due Thu, Jun 3, 2021

• HW03 - CULPA Reviews

Date	Topic	Reading	Tutorial
Mon, May 31, 2021	Memorial Day No Lecture
Tue, Jun 1, 2021	Lecture 16 Guest Lecture: Maria Antoniak
Wed, Jun 2, 2021	Lecture 17 Matrix Factorization Logistic Regression [slides] [empty notebook] [completed notebook]	Hovy (Textbook), Chapter 6 Matrix Factorization Lena Voita, NLP Course, Text Classification Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft), Chapter 5: Logistic Regression
Thu, Jun 3, 2021	Lecture 18 Clustering [slides] [empty notebook] [completed notebook]	Hovy (Textbook), Chapter 7: Clustering	Project Proposal (Due Thu, Jun 3, 2021)

Week 6 (06/07) - Advanced Topics & Projects

Weekly Readings - Due

Weekly Homework - Due Thu, Jun 10, 2021

• HW04 - Classifying Tweets about COVID-19 as Informative or Uninformative

Date	Topic	Reading	Tutorial
Mon, Jun 7, 2021	Deadline to P/D/F or Withdraw from Summer A Course
Mon, Jun 7, 2021	Lecture 19 Matrix Factorization [slides] [empty notebook] [completed notebook]	Hovy (Textbook), Chapter 6 Matrix Factorization
Tue, Jun 8, 2021	Lecture 20 Word Embeddings [slides] [empty notebook]	Hovy (Textbook), Chapter 5.3 Distributed Representations Jay Alammar, The Illustrated Word2Vec (blog)
Wed, Jun 9, 2021	Lecture 21 Guest Lecture: Lucy Li, Berkeley Project Discussions
Thu, Jun 10, 2021	Lecture 22 N-grams & Phrases Project Discussions [slides] [empty notebook]	Hovy (Textbook), Chapter 2.1.4 n-Grams Hovy (Textbook), Chapter 4 Pointwise Mutual Information Hovy (Textbook), Chapter 8 Language Models

Week 7 (06/14) - Projects

Weekly Readings - Due

Date	Topic	Reading	Tutorial
Mon, Jun 14, 2021	Lecture 24 Project Update Presentations
Fri, Jun 18, 2021	Final Project due