Michelle A. McSweeney (Johnson)
Announcing NYCDH Week GC Digital Fellows Workshops: Intro to Programming with Python & Social Media Scraping
On 05, Feb 2016 | In Events of Interest | By Michelle A. McSweeney (Johnson)
The GC Digital Fellows will be offering 2 workshops in celebration of NYCDH Week, a week-long celebration of all things digital humanities in New York City (open to non-humanists, of course!) February 8-12. For more information, visit the NYCDH Website, and for a list of all events taking place around New York City, check out the Schedule.
Join the GC Digital Fellows for Introduction to Programming with Python and Social Media Scraping with the Twitter API on Monday and Wednesday, 2:00-4:00pm at the Graduate Center at CUNY! Details are below, we hope to see you there!
Introduction to Programming with Python
Monday, February 8th 2:00-4:00pm
This workshop introduces the fundamentals of programming using Python, a language popular in both academia and the commercial world. Topics will include basic programming concepts such as loops, variables, and conditionals, installing and importing libraries, and creating simple scripts. No previous programming experience is necessary.
This workshop will be hosted by Ian Phillips and Patrick Smyth.
Social Media Scraping with the Twitter API
Wednesday, February 10th 2:00-4:00pm
This workshop will introduce the Twitter API, a way of programmatically interacting with the Twitter platform, and will place a particular emphasis on gathering data for textual, sociological, or linguistic analysis. Some knowledge of Python will be helpful, but is not strictly necessary.
This workshop will be hosted by Patrick Smyth and Jen Tang.
For more information, please contact gc.digitalfellows@gmail.com or visit our website. Hope to see you there!
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