Outline

Week 1 (7 Feb)

• Tech setup
• Python basics
• API & Web scraping basics

Week 2 (14 Feb)

• Pandas
• Sklearn; machine learning basics

Week 3 (21 Feb)

• ML continued
• Prediction evaluation

Week 4 (28 Feb)

• Regular expression

Week 5 (7 Mar)

• Text cleaning

Week 6 (14 Mar)

• Word embedding

Week 7 (21 Mar)

• Structural Topic Modelling

Week 8 (28 Mar)

• Sentiment Analysis
• Topic modelling

Week 9 (4 Apr)

• Network basics & visualization

Week 10 (18 Apr)

• Twitter interaction network

Week 11 (25 Apr)

• Network simulation
• Image basics