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%

 

 

TOPIC

      CORE READINGS

    CASE STUDIES, OTHER RESOURCES

1-W 8/26

Intro to Course & TDO

  • TDO Chapter 1
  • Single-source textbook (11.4)
  • Multigenerational photo collection (11.1)
  • Earth orbiting satellites (11.6)
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2-M 8/31

Activities

  • TDO Chapter 2 (skip 2.3.3.2 until 9/9)
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3-W 9-2

Activities 2

  • Knowledge management for consulting firm (11.2)
  • Gamerman, Ellen. “Everbody's an Art Curator,” Wall Street Journal, 23 October 2014
  • Computational Curation (Haber) video
  • Computational Curation (Great Parchment) video
 
ASSIGNMENT 1 - the case study. Proposal for topic and deliverables, and preliminary analysis due 10/18
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M 9/7

LABOR DAY HOLIDAY

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4-W 9/9

Information Architecture

  • CalBug and its Search Interface Redesign (11.7)
 
ASSIGNMENT 2 - Principles for Organizing - Andronico and Amazon -  (due 9/16).
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4-M 9/14

Roadmap-Lifecycle

  • TDO Chapter 10
  • Kitchen (11.5)
  • Neuroscience lab (11.18)
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6-W 9/16

Resources 1

  • Vegetable garden (11.12)
  • Smarter Farming (11.3)
  • CODIS DNA Database (11.9)
  • IP Addressing (11.13)
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7-M 9/21

Resources 2

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8-W 9/23

Resource Description 1

  • TDO Sections 4.1- 4.3
  • TDO Chapter 8 through the end of 8.2.1
 
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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9-M 9/28

Resource Description 2

  • Kent Chapters 2 and 3
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10-W 9/30

Graham Freeman lecture on 'Music as an Organizing System

Describing multimedia and non-text

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11-M 10/5

Relationships and Structures 1

  • TDO Sections 5.1- 5.4, 5.7
  • Kent Chapter 4
 
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12-W 10/7

Relationships and Structures 2

ASSIGNMENT 4 - Document Types for a Day
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13-M 10/12

Document Engineering

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14-W 10/14

Relationships and Structures 3

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15-M 10/19

Relationships and Structures 4

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16-W 10/21

REVIEW AND CONSOLIDATE!

 
TAKEHOME QUIZ 2  - 95 minutes timed exam, anytime between 8am Friday 10/23 and 6pm Sunday 10/25
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17-M 10/26

Categorization 1

  • TDO Sections 6.1-6.3
 
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18-W 10/28

Categorization 2

  • TDO Sections 6.4-6.6
 
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19-M 11/2

Classification 1

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20-W 11/4

Classification 2

  • TDO Sections 7.3-7.6
 
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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21-M 11/9

Text Processing and Computational Classification (1)

  • Taming Text
    • Chapter 1, "Getting started taming text" (p 1-16)
    • Chapter 2, "Foundations of taming text", (p 16-33)
    • Chapter 3, "Searching" (p 46-49)

W 11/11

VETERANS DAY HOLIDAY

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22-M 11/16

Intro to Text Processing and Computational Classification (2)

  • TDO
    • Section 6.5, "Implementing Categories"
    • Section 7.6, "Computational Classification"
    • Section 9.4, "Implementing Interactions" (9.4, 9.4.1, and 9.4.2)
  • Taming Text
    • Chapter 5, "Identifying People, Places, and Things", (p 115-120)
    • Chapter 6, "Clustering Text" (p 140-148)
    • Chapter 7, "Classification, Categorization, and Tagging", (p 175-188)

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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25-M 11/30

Interactions 1

  • Baron, Richard J., Elizabeth L. Fabens, Melissa Schiffman, and Erica Wolf. “Electronic health records: just around the corner? Or over the cliff?.” Annals of internal medicine 143, no. 3 (2005): 222-226.
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26-W 12/2

Interactions 2

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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M 12/7

ALUMNI DAY

 

 

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W 12/9

COURSE WRAP-UP; PROJECT REVIEWS

  • re-read TDO Chapter 10 (from 9/14)

 

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F 12/11

IN CLASS EXAM (Room 202, not usual 210)

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Course Summary:

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