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Exam Results
All exam results should now be available through EUCLID. A total of 278 students sat the Inf1-DA exam this year, with over 95% passing and very many achieving Grade A. Those are excellent results, congratulations.
I’ll publish a more detailed feedback report later, with information about student solutions to all of the exam questions. If you have questions or concerns about your result in this or any other course then contact your Personal Tutor to discuss this further.
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Exam on Tuesday
The Inf1-DA exam is on Tuesday morning, tomorrow, in The Pleasance Sports Hall.
Some final notes about marks and grades, in response to questions raised in this and other courses.
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Solution Notes for Coursework and Past Exams
I’ve uploaded reports on the written assignment and on last year’s Inf1-DA exam. These give detailed notes on solutions and discuss the range of answers given by students. You can also find these on the coursework web page and the ITO past paper pages.
Links: Report on 2015/16 exam; Feedback on written assignment
Student Course Feedback
Please fill out the short online feedback survey for Inf1-DA. This is organised centrally by the University, with all results sent to the individual course organiser and to the Director of Teaching. I read every comment individually, and for Informatics courses we post results online to help other students choosing courses for the future.
Thank you.
Feedback for this course: | Informatics 1: Data & Analysis |
All surveys on MyEd: | Course Enhancement Questionnaires |
Reports from previous years: | Student Course Feedback |
Tutorial 8 Notes and Solutions
The tutorials web page now has notes and solutions for the questions in Tutorial 8, statistical analysis.
Week 10 Tutorial Exercises: Statistical Analysis
The tutorials web page now has the latest set of exercises. As before, Question 1 is based on content of Tuesday’s lecture, and material for Question 2 appears on Friday.
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Exam Information
I’ve added a page with dates and other information about the Inf1-DA course exam. I’ll also review this in the Week 11 lectures.
Tutorial 7: Notes and Solutions
Notes and solutions for the information retrieval questions in Tutorial 7 are now on the tutorials web page.
British National Corpus
In the most recent tutorial exercises you used the cqp
tool to search a 3-megaword Dickens corpus. We also have the 96-megaword British National Corpus installed under cqp
which you can explore by selecting BNC
at the commmand line.
$ cqp -e [no corpus]> BNC BNC> AllWords = [word="[a-zA-Z].*"] BNC> size AllWords 96063265 BNC>
This has part-of-speech and lemma information like the Dickens corpus, using the Claws 5 POS tag set. As this corpus is much larger you will find queries take noticeably longer to execute.
I also recommend reading the following article on the design and creation of the BNC.
- Gavin Burnage and Glynis Baguley. The British National Corpus. Library and Information Briefings 65, February 1996.
This includes information about text corpora in general, as well as specific details about how the BNC came about.