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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 The slides available may be out of date (from the last version of the class) but will be updated after each lecture. | 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 The slides available may be out of date (from the last version of the class) but will be updated after each lecture. | ||
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| + | ''Some guest speakers/new topics are yet to be scheduled: | ||
| + | * Justin Cranshaw, LiveHoods | ||
| + | * social contagion | ||
| + | * ...'' | ||
== September == | == September == | ||
Revision as of 14:15, 7 August 2012
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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 The slides available may be out of date (from the last version of the class) but will be updated after each lecture.
Some guest speakers/new topics are yet to be scheduled:
- Justin Cranshaw, LiveHoods
- social contagion
- ...
Contents
September
- Tue 9/11: Overview of the course.
- Thu 9/13: Sentiment: Polarity Classification.
- Tue 9/18: Sentiment: Subjectivity and Opinion.
- Thu 9/20: Graph background 1: Properties of social networks
- Tue 9/25: Graph background 2: Homophily and social networks
- Thu 9/27: More detail on homophily
- Assignment (due Thu 10/4): 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. Here are some tips for writing wiki pages to help you do this.
October
- Tue 10/2: Student project proposals -1
- Thu 10/4: Student project proposals -2.
- First draft of project proposal is due. To hand it in, please add a link to this List of First-Draft Project Proposals for 10-802 in Fall 2012
- Tue 10/9: Graph Background 3: Spectral Methods
- Tue 10/9: Graph Background 4: Probabilistic Graph Models
- Thu 10/11: Sampling from graphs
- Second draft of project proposal is due.
- Tue 10/16: Scalable algorithms for networks
- Thus 10/18: Unsupervised models for text in graphs 1
- Tue 10/23: Unsupervised models for text in graphs 2
- Thus 10/30: TBD
November
- Thus 11/1: Local Navigation in Small-World Graphs 1
- Tues 11/6: Local Navigation in Small-World Graphs 2
- Tues 11/13: Information Diffusion - 1
- Thus 11/15: Information Diffusion - 2
- Tues 11/20: Viral Marketing
- Thus 11/22 Thanksgiving - no class!
- Tues 11/27: Anonymity and Privacy in Networks
- Thus 11/29: TBD
December
- Tues 12/1: TBD
- Thus 12/3: TBD
- Tues 12/4: project reports 1
- Thus 12/6: project reports 2
Mon 12/10: final projects are due
