King’s College London has developed complete stories around Jupyter Notebooks that form easy recipes for reproducible methods in social data science. Jupyter (http://jupyter.org/) is a web-based computing environment, mostly, but not exclusively based on Python. Content is divided between a number of cells, which may contain code, visualisations and maps, interactive UI elements or rich HTML content.

On top of this foundation, the notebooks add a document-based workflow. Notebook documents contain live code, descriptive text, mathematical equations, interactive user-interface components, images, videos, and arbitrary HTML.

King’s College London has used notebooks in the development of an Apache Spark teaching and experimentation environment, wrapping Apache Spark in an experimental containerised web application that allows users to participate in ad-hoc clusters via Jupyter and produced corresponding multimedia guides.

There are five main topics around which Jupyter Notebooks are organised. Within each main topic, users can find specific exercises, as detailed below. To launch the exercises, follow the .HTML printout within each exercise folder.

Historical Cultures - Analysing Shakespeare - Create Corpus Visualisations - Hate Speech Detection - Getting Started with Quanteda - An introduction to Tidy Text

Prediction Modelling - Linear Regression Prediction - Predicting and Modelling: Neural Networks - Collaborative Filtering Recommender System

Social and Cultural Communities - R Markdown: Notebooks With R 1. Votes in the United Nations General Assembly dataset 2. Collaboration Networks in the United States Congress

Social Sensing - API 1. Facebook 2. Twitter Streaming API 3. Whatsapp - Graphs 1. Eighteenth Century beta of PRISM

Visual Arts - Advanced R Visualisations - Interactive R Visualisations

The multimedia guides are built around Ananke. Ananke is a containerized web application wrapper that allows complete novices to experiment with ad-hoc Apache Spark clusters without access to commercial cloud services.

Ananke Guide Ananke Video Demo

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