Biology 114: supplementary material

This web site serves material used in hands-on activities to explore change through time – evolution – of cultural material.

• Getting ready to go: technical prerequisites and setup that we’ll verify in class together
• Basics of the Julia language:
  • Nouns and verbs of the Julia language: some basics of the Julia language in a self-testing Pluto notebook
  • Basics of scholarly research: working with collections of data (including a self-testing Pluto notebook)
• Data models and data structures:
  • homework assignment: modelling style in the Gettysburg Address
  • example analyses from class:
    • comparing usage of pronouns
    • looking at sentence length
  • hands-on assignment: Julia notebook to classify rhetorical style
• Comparing data: 20 translations of the Bible
• Constructing and interpreting trees: linguistic evolution

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