Class Schedule

*Class schedule is subject to revision throughout the semester.

W	Date	Due (before class @ 1pm)	Topics Tools
		#To-do/Homework Project
1	1/19		[slides] Course introduction, setup Git
	1/21	#1	[slides] Data in linguistics Git, GitHub
2	1/26	Homework 1: Explore linguistic data	[slides] Processing linguistic data Jupyter Notebook
	1/28	#2	Data processing fundamentals, statistics	[slides, JNB] Python's numpy library
3	2/2	#3		[slides, JNB] Data frames with pandas Markdown
	2/4	#4		[JNB] More pandas, text processing, stats
4	2/9	Project ideas		[JNB] Stats crash course, visualization
	2/11	Homework 2: Process the ETS corpus (1st half)		[JNB, JNB] Stats continued, HW2 review
5	2/16	#5, HW2 (2nd half)	Open access & data publishing [slides] Guest speaker Lauren Collister
	2/18	Project plan	Data mining	[JNB, JNB] HW2 review, mining web & social media
6	2/23	Self-care day: No class
	2/25	#6	Corpus linguistics, annotation	[slides] Corpora: data formats Git, GitHub
7	3/2	#7		[slides] Linguistic annotation
	3/4	1st progress report	Machine learning	[slides, JNB] Annotation Ctd, Regression
8	3/9	#8		[JNB] Classifiers: NB, count vectors, TF-IDF
	3/11	#9		[JNB] SVC, categorical data, cross-validation
9	3/16	Homework 3: Machine learning with ETS data		[JNB, JNB] Homework 3 review
	3/18	#10		[JNB] HW3 continued
10	3/23	2nd progress report	Big data at CRC, and machine learning (continued), and advanced NLP	[slides] Command-line tools Bash/Zsh, grep, Unix tools
	3/25	#11 (new: 1-day extension)		[JNB, slides] Supercomputing at CRC, HW3 wrap: dimensionality reduction, ensemble model
11	3/30	#12		[slides, JNB] Computational efficiency (by Joey), Grid Search and parallel processing
	4/1	#13		[JNB, JNB, JNB] Big data wrangling, grid search continued, clustering & topic modeling
12	4/6	Homework 4: Supercomputing Yelp Data		[repo, JNB] Homework 4 review, advanced NLP
	4/8	#14	Speech & multimedia	[slides] Speech data and corpora Praat
13	4/13	3rd progress report		[slides] ASR theory, forced aligner Python libraries
	4/15	#15	Project presentations	SC, EM, [slides] Multimodal data Elan
14	4/20			AC, JP, FH
	4/22			LB, MB, ET
15	5/2	Final project report	No class: finals week