Course Schedule

As course schedule and assignments are subject to change, please check this page frequently.

Date	Topic	Readings	Due
Week 1: 1/25/2023	introduction
UNIT ONE Week 2: 1/30/2023	Jupyter, calculation and data types	Cifor, M., Garcia, P., et al, Feminist Data Manifest-NO
2/1/2023	types and variables		Homework #0 due (optional)
Week 3: 2/6/2023	functions	Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies on “Race”	Homework #1 due: data types and variables
2/8/2023	loops
Week 4: 2/15/2023	lists	Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies on “Sexuality”
Week 5: CUNY MONDAY 2/21/2023	logic		Homework #2 due: python basics
UNIT TWO 2/22/2023	intro to nltk	The NLTK Book, chapter 1, sections 1.2 - 1.4 & 3.1
Week 6: 2/27/2023	CLASS CANCELED
3/1/2023	intro to nltk
Week 7: 3/6/2023	nltk: cleaning text	Data Feminism, “Introduction: Why Data Science Needs Feminism”
3/8/2023	nltk: cleaning continued
Week 8: 3/13/2023	midterm review		Homework #3 due: cleaning
3/15/2023	MIDTERM
Week 9: 3/20/2023	nltk: text analysis
3/22/2023	nltk: text analysis	Kate Brennan, “ChatGPT and the Hidden Bias of Language Models”
Week 10: 3/27/2023	nltk: gender analysis
3/29/2023	nltk: gender analysis	The Future of Life Institute, “Pause Giant AI Experiments Open Letter”
Week 11: 4/3/2023	nltk: gender analysis	Joy Buolamwini and Timnit Gebru, “Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification”	Homework #4 due: text analysis (at end of class)
4/5/2023 - 4/12/2023	SPRING BREAK
UNIT THREE
Week 12: 4/17/2023	Transformer models	Timnit Gebru et al: “Statement from the listed authors of Stochastic Parrots on the “AI pause” letter”
4/19/2023	Transformer models continued
Week 13: 4/24/2023	Text Generation	“The Illustrated Word2Vec” Video
4/26/2023	Text Generation continued
Week 14: 5/1/2023	Models	Emily Bender et al: “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models be too Big?”
5/3/2023	Datasets
Week 15: 5/8/2023	Final project workshops	Gehman et al: “RealToxicityPrompts: Evaluating Neural Toxic Degeneration in Language Models”	Project proposals due
5/10/2023	Final project Workshops
Week 16: 5/15/2023	Final exam review		Final projects due
5/17, 1:00pm–3:15pm	FINAL EXAM