#1 Introduction +
Where is the digital
revolution?
Alex Flückiger
Faculty of Humanities and Social
Sciences
University of Lucerne
03 March 2022
AI is a moving target with respect to …
🙈 Not really, Arizona is not by the sea.
Can you disenchant them?
AI = from humankind import solution
Coding is a superpower …
… to tackle complex problems on scale
directed country mentions in UN speeches
🤓 inputs are more than welcome!
Date | Topic |
---|---|
03 March 2022 | Introduction + Where is the digital revolution? |
10 March 2022 | Text as Data |
17 March 2022 | Setting up your Development Environment |
24 March 2022 | Introduction to the Command-line |
31 March 2022 | Basic NLP with Command-line |
07 April 2022 | Learning Regular Expressions |
14 April 2022 | Working with (your own) Data |
21 April 2022 | no lecture (Osterpause) |
28 April 2022 | Ethics and the Evolution of NLP |
05 May 2022 | Introduction to Python |
12 May 2022 | NLP with Python |
19 May 2022 | NLP with Python + Working Session |
26 May 2022 | no lecture (Christi Himmelfahrt) |
02 June 2022 | Mini-Project Presentations + Discussion |
You will be tech-savvy…
…yet no programmer applying fancy machine learning
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