Mon, 9 Feb 2026 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Convenor: Sonia Fereidooni, CDH Methods Fellow 2025-26
This Digital Methods Workshop will guide participants through critical social analysis of data science methods, using supplementary technical assignments in the Python Programming Language to teach:
(1) Basics of Python
(2) Reading in and examining datasets
(3) Performing data transformations
(4) Performing visualisations and mapping
(5) Working with categorical and text data
(6) Web scraping
(7) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
(8) Merging and joining datasets (and how to spot misinformation in political advertisements as a real-world social sciences application for practice)
(9) Social Networks
The workshop involves short, hands-on coding sprints followed by structured Socratic discussions that prompt participants to analyse the social and ethical implications of their technical work. This interactive approach ensures participants leave not only with new coding skills but with a social analysis framework for critically examining the design and implementation decisions of their code to develop responsibly in their own research.
This workshop is part of our Methods Fellowship programme, which develops and delivers innovative teaching in digital methods. You can read more about the programme here and view the complete series of workshops here.
