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

This is currently under construction!

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 The slides available may be out of date (from the last version of the class) but will be updated after each lecture.

Note: Some guest speakers/new topics are yet to be scheduled: Justin Cranshaw, LiveHoods; Cosma; Yi Chia; Jan W; social contagion

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. (Guest lecture - Cosma Shalizi).

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: Urban Analytics with Livehoods. (Guest lecture from Justin Cranshaw.)
  • 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: Sampling from graphs

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