Course Syllabus
Information Organization & Retrieval, Fall 2015
Teaching Team:
- Professor Robert Glushko, glushko@berkeley.edu, 313 South Hall
- Laura Desmond-Black
- Daniel Griffin
- Emily Paul
- Jordan Shedlock
- Vijay Velagapudi
Required Textbooks:
Glushko, Robert J. (Editor). The Discipline of Organizing: Professional Edition (3rd edition). O'Reilly Media, 2015.
Kent, William. Data and Reality (3rd Edition). Technics Publications, 2012.
Grant Ingersoll, Thomas Morton, & Andrew Farris, Taming Text: How to Find, Organize, and Manipulate It, 2013
Course Grade Breakdown
participation - 10%
assignments - 35%
exams - 40% (made of the average of 3 exams or 4 depending on how many you take)
case study - 15%
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CASE STUDIES, OTHER RESOURCES |
Intro to Course & TDO |
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Activities |
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Activities 2 |
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ASSIGNMENT 1 - the case study. Proposal for topic and deliverables, and preliminary analysis due 10/18 | |||
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LABOR DAY HOLIDAY |
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Information Architecture |
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ASSIGNMENT 2 - Principles for Organizing - Andronico and Amazon - (due 9/16). | |||
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Roadmap-Lifecycle |
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Resources 1 |
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Resources 2 |
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Resource Description 1 |
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TAKEHOME QUIZ 1 - 80 minutes timed exam, anytime between noon Friday 9/25 and 6pm Sunday 9/27. Covers Chapters 1,2,3,10 | |||
ASSIGNMENT 3 - Develop a vocabulary. (due 10/7) | |||
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Resource Description 2 |
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Describing multimedia and non-text |
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Relationships and Structures 1 |
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Relationships and Structures 2 |
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ASSIGNMENT 4 - Document Types for a Day | |||
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Document Engineering |
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Relationships and Structures 3 |
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Relationships and Structures 4 |
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REVIEW AND CONSOLIDATE! |
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TAKEHOME QUIZ 2 - 95 minutes timed exam, anytime between 8am Friday 10/23 and 6pm Sunday 10/25 | |||
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Categorization 1 |
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Categorization 2 |
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Classification 1 |
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Classification 2 |
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ASSIGNMENT 5- analyze a classification in terms of (a) the properties of the resources it uses (b) the principles that rely on those properties and (c) the biases or perspectives that are implied by (a) and (b). (due 11/16) | |||
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Text Processing and Computational Classification (1) |
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Intro to Text Processing and Computational Classification (2) |
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23-W 11/18 |
REVIEW FOR COMPREHENSIVE EXAM ON 11/23 |
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24-M 11/23 |
IN CLASS EXAM |
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W 11/25 |
THANKSGIVING WEEK HOLIDAY |
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Interactions 1 |
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Interactions 2 |
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ASSIGNMENT 6- an interaction design problem that requires thinking about information requirements, potential bias in choice architecture, and the opportunity for substituting information for interaction by using a smart user model (due 12/7) | |||
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ALUMNI DAY |
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COURSE WRAP-UP; PROJECT REVIEWS |
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F 12/11 |
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Course Summary:
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