We will be honored to host a course on “Data Mining, Analysis and Visualization” held by Dr. Bruno Gonçalves (Senior Researcher at Center for Data Science, New York University) from Apr. 24th to May 5th. Below you can find a schedule of his lectures. All the lectures will be held at “sala riunioni”, first floor at the Department of Computer Science.
Apr 24 – 10:00-12:00
– Web Scraping
— requests
— scrapy
— BeautifulSoup
— PyQuery
Apr 26 – 16:00-18:00
– Online Social Networks
— Authentication (BasicAuth, OAuth1, OAuth2)
— Twitter API
— Foursquare API
— Google API
Apr 28 – 10:00-12:00
– Collaborative Platforms
— Wikipedia
— GitHub
May 2 – 14:00-16:00
– Geocoding and Spatial Analysis
— shapefiles
— PostGIS
— geopy
May 3 – 16:00-18:00
– Scientific Visualization
— Human Perception
— Basic plotting
— Mapping and geographical Projections
May 5 – 10:00-12:00
– Case study
— Data Collection
— Analysis
— Visualization
