Outline

Week 1 (Feb 19)

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

Week 2 (Feb 26)

• Pandas
• Sklearn; machine learning basics Recording

Week 3 (Mar 4)

• OpenAI API introduction Recording
• ML continued Recording
• Prediction evaluation

Week 4 (Mar 11)

• Regular expression

Week 5 (Mar 11)

• Text cleaning

Week 6 (Mar 18)

• Word embedding
• Embedding with LLMs (Vertex AI & OpenAI) Recording

Week 7 (Mar 25) (additional)

• Assignment1 review

Week 7 (Apr 8)

• Structural Topic Modelling

Week 8 (Apr 15)

• Sentiment Analysis
• Topic modelling

Week 9 (Apr 22)

• Network basics & visualization

Week 10 (Apr 29)

• Twitter interaction network

Week 11 (May 6)

• Network simulation
• Image basics