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