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 The slides available may be out of date (from the last version of the class) but will be updated after each lecture.

September

• Tue 9/11: Overview of the course.
• 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
• Thu 9/27: More detail on homophily. (Guest lecture - Cosma Shalizi).

October

• Tue 10/2: Graph Analysis 1: Spectral Methods
• Thu 10/4: Sense-level sentiment analysis. (Guest lecture from Jan Weibe.)
  • 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 Analysis 2: 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: Sampling from graphs
• Thus 10/18: StepGreen. (Guest lecture from Jen Mankoff).
• Tue 10/23: Unsupervised models for text in graphs
• Thus 10/25: Viral Marketing
• 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: Information Diffusion 1
• Tues 11/8: Information Diffusion 2
• 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: Social Contagion
• Thus 11/29: Social Networks and Commerce

December

• Tues 12/1: Social Problem-Solving
• Thus 12/3: Anonymity in Networks
• Tues 12/4: project reports 1
• Thus 12/6: project reports 2

Mon 12/10: final projects are due