The course COMM7780/JOUR7280 Big Data for Media and Communication is setup for master students in the school of communication, Hong Kong Baptist University. The purpose of this course is to motivate the students to become a T-shape talent in communications field. The course involves intensive training of Python and quest in solving practical problems. This GitBook collects all the materials related with lab exercises covering basic Python, data scraping, table manipulation and data mining. Every week, one group of students will apply that week's knowledge into a real problem from their own domain. The solution is posted on Data and News Society.
This GitBook project is not maintained since April 22, 2018. Latest codes of this book can be found in this GitHub backup repo: https://github.com/hupili/python-for-data-and-media-communication-gitbook
People who look for the latest materials of COMM7780/ JOUR7280 please proceed to the main GitHub repo: https://github.com/hupili/python-for-data-and-media-communication