Syllabus 2020-21

Weekly planning

  1. Intro | Course goals | Organisation | Technical preparation 20210209
    • "math anxiety"
    • the data pipeline
    • definitions of popular culture & popular culture media
    • assignment: install OpenRefine
  2. Acquiring datasets 20210216
    • structured and unstructured data
    • concept: webscraping (examples with Outwit Hub)
    • intro OpenRefine functionality
    • assignment: get used to OpenRefine navigation, explore datasets: practice filters and facets
  3. Cleaning Data 20210223
    • what is "cleaning"?
    • assignments:
      • find and paraphrase the quantitative research questions in a set of articles on Japanese popular culture
      • OpenRefine: analyse, edit and fix cells
  4. Data analysis 20210302
    • introduction textanalysis and textmining
      • mailgloss project
      • NLTK Python library
      • MeCab
      • Nvivo
    • example network analysis
    • assignments:
      • data cleaning exercise
      • explore the Aozora Bunko repository
  5. DataViz 20210309
    • data visualisation: why, what, how
    • Tableau & D3.js
    • assignments
      • find solutions with GREL
      • digest tableau tutorial
  6. Set-up groupwork 20210316
    • D3.js work-out
    • recap data pipeline
    • assignments
      • emulate D3.js scripts fileset I
    • projectgroup meetings from here on
  7. Research week 1 20210323
    • research howto (reference materials)
    • feedback assignments session 3
    • assignments
      • scraping exercise with OpenRefine
  8. Research week 2 20210330
    • character encoding and conversion (reference materials)
    • feedback assignments session 4 & 5
    • assignments
      • emulate D3.js scripts II
      • reconciliation with OpenRefine: go through documentation
      • exercise textanalysis/OpenRefine with Aozora Bunko repo
  9. Research week 3 20210420
    • assignment
      • exercise reconciliation with OpenRefine
      • wrap up webscraping and text analysis
  10. Production week 1 20210427
  11. Production week 2 20210504
  12. Production week 3 20210511
  13. Round-up & Feedback 20210518