IS 417

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Data Science in the Humanities

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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Human culture provides an ideal testbed for students exploring data science, because the interpretive challenges that lurk beneath the surface in other domains become starkly visible here. For instance, cultural materials usually come to analysts as unstructured texts, images, or sound files, forcing explicit decisions about data modeling and feature extraction. Cultural questions also highlight the importance of interpreting statistical models in relation to a social context. Last but not least: songs, poems, and stories confront us with vivid problems that are inherently fun to explore. This course will start by reviewing descriptive and inferential statistics, and build up to applications of supervised and unsupervised machine learning. We will apply those methods to a range of cultural materials using them to model the pace of stylistic change in popular music, for instance, and the representation of gender in fiction.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite: One semester of experience programming, for example, STAT 107 or IS 430 - or any analogous course.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

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IS 417 class schedule data for fall 2021
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	75115	Lecture-Discussion	ACG	9:30AM -12:20PM	T	46 Grad Sch of Lib & Info Science	Underwood, W	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/23/21-12/08/21 Degree Notes: ONL Info Science rate course. Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Graduate student questions may be sent to ischool-advising@illinois.edu Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the Information Sciences or Illinois Informatics Institute department. Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	75116	Lecture-Discussion	ACU	9:30AM -12:20PM	T	46 Grad Sch of Lib & Info Science	Underwood, W	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/23/21-12/08/21 Degree Notes: ONL Info Science rate course. Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Undergraduate section. Restricted to Information Sciences major initially. INFO Minors may register starting by noon 7/6/2021. Restrictions lifted by noon 7/20/2021. For more information about this major, please visit: http://go.ischool.illinois.edu/BSIS. Questions may be sent to bsis-advising@illinois.edu. Restriction(s): Not intended for students with Freshman or Sophomore class standing. Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.