#Computing in Context ##Social Sciences Track ####Matthew L. Jones ####Highly provisional

##Lecture 18 (March 26): Working with numbers

csv, excel importing
pandas, tables, basic matrix and vector operations
basic summarization
boolean indexing
simple graphing

READ BEFORE CLASS:

• Frederick Gibbs and Trevor Owens, The Hermeneutics of Data and Historical Writing

• Steven Ruggles, “The Transformation of American Family Structure.” The American Historical Review 99 (1 1994): 103. (http://users.pop.umn.edu/~ruggles/Articles/AHR.pdf)

Check out this data source: https://www.ipums.org/

##Lecture 20 (April 2): Working with text (the good)

plurality of sources
basic text mining ideas: stemming, stopwords, word frequencies
measuring similarity

READ BEFORE CLASS:

• Ramsay, Stephen. Reading Machines toward an Algorithmic Criticism. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2011, ch. 3

• “Sapping Attention: Stopwords to the Wise.” Accessed May 25, 2014. http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2011/04/stopwords-to-wise.html.

Check out this data source:Capitol Words

###Recitation 10 (April 3): text processing project

##Lecture 22 (April 9) Working with texts (the bad and ugly) pdf extraction regex text mining: LSA, LDA and friends (gensim)

READ BEFORE CLASS:

• Bus Subsidies in Argentina, La Nacion: http://datajournalismhandbook.org/1.0/en/case_studies_14.html

• http://blogs.lanacion.com.ar/projects/data/vozdata/

##Lecture 24 (April 16) Working with networks introductory social network analysis networkx, gephi

READ BEFORE CLASS

• S. Graham, I. Milligan, & S. Weingart, The Historian's Macroscope, Section on Networks.
• Look at: “Connected China”, http://connectedchina.reuters.com/

###Recitation 12 (April 18): dictionaries project Using aad.archives.gov public sector strike information (http://aad.archives.gov/aad/content/aad_docs/rg257_workstop_recordlayout_1953-77_1_of_2.pdf) (http://aad.archives.gov/aad/content/aad_docs/rg257_workstop_recordlayout_1953-77_2_of_2.pdf)

##Lecture 26 (April 23): Working with places census, mapping, python and GIS

• Read: Richard White, “What is Spatial History"

##Lecture 28 (April 30): Track finale

##Recitation 14 (May 1): Project 3 due -- advanced