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