CS 4984 - Social Computing Capstone
Fall 2017

Resources

iPython/Jupyter Notebooks:

• A Gallery of Interesting iPython Notebooks
• Collection of Data Science Notebooks
• Notebooks for the book: Python for Data Analysis
• pandas overview from Data School, including an associated video series

Fetching social media data

• tweepy for accessing Twitter API
• PRAW: Python Reddit API Wrapper
• Scrapy and Beautiful Soup for crawling and scraping data
• Newspaper for scraping and curating articles

Visualization resources

• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Tufte
• Visualizations using python Seaborn
• Plotting using python Plotly, R ggplot
• Visualization using D3 and D3 tutorial

Essential Libraries (some of which we have covered briefly in class)

• Python Data Analysis Library pandas
• scikit-learn - Machine Learning in Python
• Numpy and Scipy
• spaCy for deep learning, text processing, POS tagging, entity recognition
• spacy for word2vec family of algorithms and semantic similarities
• nltk for language analysis
• Stanford NER (demoed in class)

Helpful Blogs

• Text Analytics - Sense2vec with spaCy and Gensim
• Semantic Analysis of the Reddit Hivemind
• Facebook Data Science Blog
• FiveThirtyEight
• Storytelling with data
• Lots of great projects done by Google’s Jigsaw, an incubator within Alphabet
• BotSpot articles by Digital Forensic Research Lab