Syllabus for Analysis of Social Media 10-802 in Spring 2011
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Jump to navigationJump to searchThis 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 The slides available may be out of date (from the last version of the class) but will be updated after each lecture.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: Deeper overview, and review of some past projects
February
- Tue 2/1: Student project proposals
- Thu 2/3: Graph Background 3: Spectral Methods
- Tue 2/8: Graph Background 4: Probabilistic Graph Models 1
- Thu 2/10: Graph Background 5: Probabilistic Graph Models 2. Last year this lecture was cancelled.
- Tue 2/15: Unsupervised models for text in graphs 1
- Thu 2/17: Unsupervised models for text in graphs 2
- Tue 2/22: to be determined
- Thu 2/24: Local navigation in small-world graphs 1
March
- Tue 3/1: Local navigation in small-world graphs 2
- Thu 3/3: To be determined. Last semester's lecture was on folksonomies.
- Tue 3/8: Spring Break
- Thu 3/10: Spring Break
- Tue 3/15: mid-term project reports (10 min each)
- Thu 3/17: mid-term project reports (10 min each)
- Tue 3/22: Information diffusion 1
- Thu 3/24: Information diffusion 2
- Tue 3/29: To be determined
- Thu 3/31: Diffusion and viral marketing
April
- Tue 4/5: Social collaborative systems. This was a guest lecture last semester.
- 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 (15 min each)
- Tue 4/26: project presentations (15 min each)
- Thu 4/28: project presentations (15 min each)
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).