🖺 Mann et al (1998)
🛠 Concepts: Tabular data, git, coding agents
📈 Communication: Declarative visualization, Jupyter notebooks
🖺 Schell et al (2020)
🛠 Concepts: Geospatial data structures and analysis
📈 Communication: Geospatial visualization
🖺 Delach et al (2019)
🛠 Concepts: Regular expressions, classifiers, embeddings, retrieval-augmented generation
📈 Communication: Claims traced to source documents
🖺 Your analysis from Modules 1 to 3
🛠 Concepts: Reactive design, dependencies, continuous integration, open source licensing
📈 Communication: Interactive web applications
📅 Weekly Plan¶
Fall 2026: we meet Wed/Fri 8-10am in Wheeler 212, from August 26 through December 4 (formal classes end). Hold on tight and don’t put too much faith in this.
| Week | Dates | Module | Topics |
|---|---|---|---|
| week 1 | Aug 26 / Aug 28 | 🌡 | GitHub, JupyterHub |
| week 2 | Sep 2 / Sep 4 | 🌡 | viz: plotnine |
| week 3 | Sep 9 / Sep 11 | 🌡 | data: ibis, coding agents |
| week 4 | Sep 16 / Sep 18 | 🌡 | Collab, PRs, CI |
| week 5 | Sep 23 / Sep 25 | 🛰 | spatial data types |
| week 6 | Sep 30 / Oct 2 | 🛰 | spatial data viz |
| week 7 | Oct 7 / Oct 9 | 🛰 | spatial data analysis |
| week 8 | Oct 14 / Oct 16 | 📜 | text as data, regular expressions |
| week 9 | Oct 21 / Oct 23 | 📜 | classifiers, search and RAG |
| week 10 | Oct 28 / Oct 30 | 📜 | structured extraction; final project proposal due Wed Oct 28 |
| week 11 | Nov 4 / Nov 6 | 🤖 | client-side apps |
| week 12 | ~~Nov 11~~ / Nov 13 | 🤖 | CI, dependencies, licenses |
| week 13 | Nov 18 / Nov 20 | 🎓 | final projects |
| week 14 | ~~Nov 25~~ / ~~Nov 27~~ | 🦃 | no class meetings |
| week 15 | Dec 2 / Dec 4 | 🎓 | final projects |
The final project template is at
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- Mann, M. E., Bradley, R. S., & Hughes, M. K. (1998). Global-scale temperature patterns and climate forcing over the past six centuries. Nature, 392(6678), 779–787. 10.1038/33859
- Schell, C. J., Dyson, K., Fuentes, T. L., Des Roches, S., Harris, N. C., Miller, D. S., Woelfle-Erskine, C. A., & Lambert, M. R. (2020). The ecological and evolutionary consequences of systemic racism in urban environments. Science, 369(6510). 10.1126/science.aay4497
- Delach, A., Caldas, A., Edson, K. M., Krehbiel, R., Murray, S., Theoharides, K. A., Vorhees, L. J., Malcom, J. W., Salvo, M. N., & Miller, J. R. B. (2019). Agency plans are inadequate to conserve US endangered species under climate change. Nature Climate Change, 9(12), 999–1004. 10.1038/s41558-019-0620-8