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* Tue 1/25: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 01/25/2011|Graph background 2: Homophily and social networks]] | * Tue 1/25: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 01/25/2011|Graph background 2: Homophily and social networks]] | ||
* Thu 1/27: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 01/27/2011|More detail on homophily]] | * Thu 1/27: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 01/27/2011|More detail on homophily]] | ||
+ | ** Assignment (due Fri 2/4): Write at least one wiki page describing a recent technical paper, and correctly link it to a dataset page and/or a methods page. If the dataset page and methods page don't exist, then create them as well. | ||
== February == | == February == |
Revision as of 11:24, 27 January 2011
This is the syllabus for Social Media Analysis 10-802 in Spring 2011. The slides available may be out of date (from the last version of the class) but will be updated after each lecture.
Contents
January
- Tue 1/11: Overview of the course.
- Thu 1/13: Sentiment: Polarity Classification.
- Tue 1/18: Sentiment: Subjectivity and Opinion.
- Thu 1/20: Graph background 1: Properties of social networks
- Tue 1/25: Graph background 2: Homophily and social networks
- Thu 1/27: More detail on homophily
- Assignment (due Fri 2/4): Write at least one wiki page describing a recent technical paper, and correctly link it to a dataset page and/or a methods page. If the dataset page and methods page don't exist, then create them as well.
February
- Tue 2/1: Guest lecture: Ari Lightman
- First draft of project proposal is due.
- Thu 2/3: Guest Lecture: Moira Burke, on individual-level analysis of social networks.
- Tue 2/8: Student project proposals
- Thu 2/10: Student project proposals
- Tue 2/15: Graph Background 3: Spectral Methods
- Second draft of project proposal is due.
- Thu 2/17: Graph Background 4: Probabilistic Graph Models
- Tue 2/22: Unsupervised models for text in graphs 1
- Thu 2/24: Unsupervised models for text in graphs 2
March
- Tue 3/1: Local navigation in small-world graphs 1
- Thu 3/3: Local navigation in small-world graphs 2.
- Tue 3/8: Spring Break
- Thu 3/10: Spring Break
- Tue 3/15: mid-term project reports
- Thu 3/17: mid-term project reports
- Tue 3/22: Guest Lecture: Burr Settles
- Thu 3/24: Information diffusion 1
- Tue 3/29: Information diffusion 2
- Thu 3/31: Diffusion and viral marketing
April
- Tue 4/5: to be determined
- Thu 4/7: Anonymity in graphs
- Tue 4/12: Social problem-solving
- Thu 4/14: to be determined
- Tue 4/19: to be determined
- Thu 4/21: project presentations
- Tue 4/26: project presentations
- Thu 4/28: project presentations
May
- Tue 5/3: project presentations (15 min each)
- Thu 5/5: final projects are due. Papers should be no longer than 10 pages inclusive of all references and figures. Papers should be submitted in ACM proceedings format (two columns, 9pt font, approx. 1in margins). Please use the prescribed formatting guidelines of KDD (ACM Proceedings).