| Title | Due date | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Collecting Dallas Officer-Involved Shootings
Collect and parse the Dallas Police Department's officer-involved shooting data and make an interactive map.
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Wednesday, March 11 | 20 |
| 404-Finder
Write a program to auto-detect broken links
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Tuesday, March 10 | 5 |
| The Celebrity (Tw)It List
Finding out who the most-followed users follow on Twitter.
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Tuesday, March 10 | 5 |
| Draft proposal of a final project
Use your computational methods to solve a computational problem of your own choosing.
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Tuesday, February 24 | 1 |
| Build face-grep in Python
Taking the Unix philosophy to Python and computer vision object-detection algorithms.
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Friday, February 20 | 5 |
| Listing the BuzzFeed listicles
Practicing web-scraping and regexes on BuzzFeed listicle titles
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Tuesday, February 17 | 5 |
| Analyzing Tweets in CSV form
Connect to the Twitter API, download a user's tweets as CSV, and count frequency of hashtags and words.
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Friday, February 13 | 5 |
| Firsts in American baby-naming
Even more practice with text filters, this time to find when baby names first became known.
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Tuesday, February 10 | 3 |
| Collecting and analyzing job listings from the USAJobs.gov API
Ask what you can do for your country, and what your country can pay you.
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Friday, February 6 | 10 |
| Using baby names to classify names by gender
Use the SSA baby name data to make a naive filter for guessing the gender of a name.
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Tuesday, February 3 | 5 |
| Death Row rows parsing
Collect and aggregate data from three different states' death row listings.
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Friday, January 30 | 10 |
| Basic if-else practice
Practice the logic of if-elif-else conditional branching
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Friday, January 30 | 5 |
| Exploring Congressional Twitter data as JSON
Basic JSON parsing exercise using what Congress tweets.
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Tuesday, January 27 | 5 |
| More analysis of trends in American baby-naming
More practice with text filters to find interesting trends in the SSA baby name data.
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Tuesday, January 27 | 5 |
| Parsing the White House Press Briefings as HTML
Data analysis of all the words used in the White House press briefings
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Thursday, January 22 | 10 |
| Managing baby names and data projects with Github
A sampler project that demonstrates how your code and data should be organized for minimal head-smashing.
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Friday, January 16 | 5 |
| Basic word analysis of the White House Press Briefings
After collecting the list of WH Briefings, it's time to get each briefing.
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Friday, January 16 | 10 |
| Collecting the White House Press Briefings
The first step in analyzing web data is to just collect the webpages.
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Wednesday, January 14 | 10 |
| Setup Prep
Setting up our programming toolbox and environment.
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Wednesday, January 7 | 10 |