Syllabus for Analysis of Social Media 10-802 in Fall 2012

This is the syllabus for Social Media Analysis 10-802 in Fall 2012. The slides available may be out of date (from the last version of the class) but will be updated after each lecture.

September

• Tue 9/11: Overview of the course.
  • There's an assignment hidden in the slides. Make sure you do it! Here's an example of a wiki user page.
  • Here's my current working idea for paper-review assignments for this class. Give me feedback by Sun 9/18 by leaving a comment on the wiki.
• Thu 9/13: Sentiment 1: Polarity Classification.
• Tue 9/18: Sentiment 2: Subjectivity and Opinion.
• Thu 9/20: Graph background 1: Properties of social networks
• Tue 9/25: Graph background 2: Homophily and social networks
  • Due today: Send a list of three papers you plan to summarize to me,Aasish, and Bhavana.
• Thu 9/27: More detail on homophily. (Guest lecture - Cosma Shalizi).
  • Due today: One paper summary, to be posted on the wiki. (See the assignments section of the main course page).

October

• Tue 10/2: Graph Analysis 1: Spectral Methods
  • The next two summaries are due. Email pointers to your pages to the sma-instructors email list.
• Thu 10/4: Sense-level sentiment analysis. (Guest lecture from Jan Weibe.)
• Tue 10/9: Graph Analysis 2: Probabilistic Graph Models
  • First draft of project proposal is due.
• Thu 10/11: Urban Analytics with Livehoods. (Guest lecture from Justin Cranshaw.)
• Tue 10/16: Sampling from graphs
  • Final project proposal is due.
• Thus 10/18: StepGreen. (Guest lecture from Jen Mankoff).
• Tue 10/23: Unsupervised models for text in graphs
  • Or maybe, diffusion - I may switch.
• Thus 10/25: Diffusion of Information
  • Or maybe, unsupervised models for text in graphs.
• Tues 10/30: Advanced probabilistic models for sentiment and community. (Guest lecture from Ramnath Balasubramanyan).

November

• Thus 11/1: The Impact of User-Generated Content on Engagement and Commitment in Online Communities (Guest lecture from Yi-Chia Wang.)
• Tues 11/6: Social Networks and Politics
• Tues 11/8: Diffusion and Viral Marketing
• Tues 11/13: Mid-term Project Reports
• Thus 11/15: Mid-term Project Reports
• Tues 11/20: Local Navigation in Small-World Graphs
• Thus 11/22 Thanksgiving - no class!
• Tues 11/27: Linguistic Coordination and Social Contagion
• Thus 11/29: Social Problem-Solving

December

• Tues 12/4: Final project presentations 1
• Thus 12/6: Final project presentations 2

Tuesday 12/11 at Midnight EST: final projects are due