Analyzing Social Networks, Javascript, and Web Programming at UMD's iSchool
As part of our growing professional education programs the UMD iSchool is offering three, 1-credit online courses during UMD’s winter term [January 4-22].
INST728N – Introduction to JavaScript (Golbeck) - An introduction to the fundamentals of JavaScript programming. Students will develop expertise in the basic components of all programming languages, including variables, types, data structures, and control flow. Students also will learn how to leverage JavaScript libraries for more advanced functionality. Students need no prior programming experience.
INST728Z – Introduction to Web Programming (Golbeck) - An introduction to the fundamentals of designing and programming web sites. Students will develop expertise in HTML programming extended by work with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). The programming skills are complemented with fundamentals of design and usability. Students need no prior programming experience.
INST728T – Analyzing Social Networks During Times of Crisis (Buntain) - This course builds practical experience in using Python to analyze and discover insights from social media during times of social unrest or crisis. We demonstrate how temporal, network, sentiment, and geographic analyses on Twitter can aid in understanding and can enable storytelling of controversial events, including protests in Ferguson, MO and Baltimore, MD. These demonstrations will include hands-on exercises on categorizing tweets by location and sentiment (positive or negative language), visualizing the different groups of people taking part in the discussion using NodeXL, and detecting compelling moments in the data. Students will also be introduced to the Jupyter notebook framework to aid in repeatable research and support dissemination of results to others.
For additional information about registering for these course or other iSchool professional education workshops and courses, contact Tricia Donovan at donovant@umd.edu or by phone at 301-405-0366.