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Data Analytics for Students of Social Studies and Humanities - NPFL134
Title: Data Analytics for Students of Social Studies and Humanities
Guaranteed by: Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (32-UFAL)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2023
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: yes / unlimited
State of the course: not taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: combined
Teaching methods: combined
Additional information: https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/courses/npfl134
Guarantor: doc. Mgr. Barbora Vidová Hladká, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: RNDr. Jiří Mírovský, Ph.D. (09.11.2021)
This course introduces students of Social Studies and Humanities (SSH) to data analytics. Until recently, data- analytical skills were generally believed to be reserved to Information Technology specialists. However, the mainstream SSH have undergone a significant “quantitative turn” and, for the current generation of students and scholars, practical digital skills have also become a standard competence. The curriculum has arisen as a joint effort of Charles University, University of Warsaw, and Sorbonne University.
Aim of the course -
Last update: RNDr. Jiří Mírovský, Ph.D. (09.11.2021)

This course is a gentle, programming-free combination of lectures and practical demonstrations of real-life data workflows in various SSH research areas. It aims at motivating the SSH students to improve their digital literacy in more advanced data analytics courses.

Course completion requirements -
Last update: RNDr. Jiří Mírovský, Ph.D. (09.11.2021)

To pass the course, students will be required to submit all of the six homework assignments.

Literature -
Last update: doc. Mgr. Barbora Vidová Hladká, Ph.D. (05.01.2022)

Brett, M.R. Topic Modeling: A Basic Introduction. The Journal of Digital Humanities 2(1): 12-16. 2012.

Foster, Ian, Ghani, Rayid, Jarmin, R.S., Kreuter, F. and Lane, J. (ed.). Big Data and Social Science: A Practical Guide to Methods and Tools (Chapman & Hall/CRC Statistics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences). 2017.

Piotrowski, Michael. Natural Language Processing for Historical Texts. Morgan & Claypool Publishers. 2012.

Syllabus -
Last update: doc. Mgr. Barbora Vidová Hladká, Ph.D. (05.01.2022)

The course focuses on research-based learning about the data life cycle through existing data sets in several domains.

1) Digitizing data

2) Annotating data

3) Licensing data

4) Storing and searching data

5) Quantitative textual analysis in sociology

6) Using data in law

7) Using data in natural language processing

8) Visualizing data

9) Big data and digital libraries

Entry requirements -
Last update: RNDr. Jiří Mírovský, Ph.D. (09.11.2021)

This course does not require any prior data analysis or computer science experience. All you need to get started is basic computer literacy.

 
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