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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  The slides available may be out of date (from the last version of the class) but will be updated after each lecture.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  The slides available may be out of date (from the last version of the class) but will be updated after each lecture.
  
== January ==
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== September ==
  
* Tue 1/11: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 09/11/2012|Overview of the course.]]
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* Tue 9/11: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 09/11/2012|Overview of the course.]]
* Thu 1/13: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 09/13/2012|Sentiment: Polarity Classification.]]
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** There's an assignment hidden in the slides.  Make sure you do it!  Here's an [[User:Wcohen|example of a wiki user page]].
* Tue 1/18: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 09/18/2012|Sentiment: Subjectivity and Opinion.]]
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** Here's my current working idea for [[paper-review assignments for this class]].  '''Give me feedback by Sun 9/18''' by leaving a comment on the wiki.
* Thu 1/20: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 09/20/2012|Graph background 1: Properties of social networks]]
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* Thu 9/13: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 09/13/2012|Sentiment 1: Polarity Classification.]]
* Tue 1/25: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 09/25/2012|Graph background 2: Homophily and social networks]]
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* Tue 9/18: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 09/18/2012|Sentiment 2: Subjectivity and Opinion.]]
* Thu 1/27: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 09/27/2012|More detail on homophily]]
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* Thu 9/20: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 09/20/2012|Graph background 1: Properties of social networks]]
** 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.
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* Tue 9/25: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 09/25/2012|Graph background 2: Homophily and social networks]]
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** Due today: '''Send a list of three papers you plan to summarize to me,Aasish, and Bhavana.'''
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* Thu 9/27: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 09/27/2012|More detail on homophily]].  (Guest lecture - [http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/ Cosma Shalizi]).
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** Due today: '''One paper summary, to be posted on the wiki'''. (See the assignments section of the main course page).
  
 
== October ==
 
== October ==
  
* Tue 10/2: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 10/02/2012|TBD]]
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* Tue 10/2: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 10/02/2012|Graph Analysis 1: Spectral Methods]]
** '''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]]
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** '''The next two summaries are due.'''  Email pointers to your pages to the sma-instructors email list.
* Thu 10/4: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 10/04/2012|TBD]].
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* Thu 10/4: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 10/04/2012|Sense-level sentiment analysis]]. (Guest lecture from [http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~wiebe/ Jan Weibe].)
* Tue 10/9: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 10/09/2012|Student project proposals]
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* Tue 10/9: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 10/09/2012|Graph Analysis 2: Probabilistic Graph Models]]
* Tue 10/11: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 10/16/2012|Graph Background 3: Spectral Methods]]
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** '''First draft of project proposal is due.'''
** Student slot 1
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* Thu 10/11: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 10/11/2012|Urban Analytics with Livehoods]]. (Guest lecture from [http://justincranshaw.com/ Justin Cranshaw].)
** Student slot 2
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* Tue 10/16: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 10/16/2012|Sampling from graphs]]
** '''Second draft of project proposal is due.'''
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** '''Final project proposal is due.'''
* Thu 10/16: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 10/18/2012|Graph Background 4: Probabilistic Graph Models]]
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* Thus 10/18: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 10/18/2012|StepGreen]]. (Guest lecture from [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jmankoff/ Jen Mankoff]).
** Student slot 1
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* Tue 10/23: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 10/23/2012|Unsupervised models for text in graphs]]
** Student slot 2
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** Or maybe, diffusion - I may switch.
* Tue 10/18: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 10/23/2012|Unsupervised models for text in graphs 1]]
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* Thus 10/25: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 10/25/2012|Diffusion of Information]]
** Student slot 1
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** Or maybe, unsupervised models for text in graphs.
** Student slot 2
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* Tues 10/30: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 10/30/2012|Advanced probabilistic models for sentiment and community]]. (Guest lecture from [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rbalasub/ Ramnath Balasubramanyan]).
* Thu 10/23: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 10/23/2012|Unsupervised models for text in graphs 2]]
 
** Student slot 1
 
** Student slot 2
 
 
 
== March ==
 
 
 
* Tue 3/1: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 03/01/2011|Local navigation in small-world graphs 1]]
 
** Student slot 1 -- Miray Kas - Social Search in “Small-World” Experiments
 
** Student slot 2 -- Yuzhou Xin - Identifying text polarity using random walks
 
* Thu 3/3: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 03/03/2011|Local navigation in small-world graphs 2]].
 
** Student slot 1
 
** Student slot 2
 
* Tue 3/8: '''Spring Break'''
 
* Thu 3/10: '''Spring Break'''
 
* Tue 3/15: mid-term project reports
 
  -group Andrew-Ids                  #students  #Minutes-allocated
 
  - 1  bolin,kdelaros,rnshah          3      15
 
  - 3  askory,gparent                  2      10
 
  - 5  dongyant,mkas,nqi              3      15
 
  - 7  akgoyal,dyogatam,ssomanch      3      15
 
  - 9  yxin                            1      10
 
* Thu 3/17: mid-term project reports
 
  - GId Andrew-Ids                  #students  #Minutes-allocated
 
  - 2  aoverwij                        1      10
 
  - 4  dwijaya,reyyan                  2      10
 
  - 6  diliu,dperciva                  2      10
 
  - 8  dpmills,ssahebi                2      10
 
  - 10  manajs,subhodee                2      10
 
  - 11  mings,yanbox,nitina,yandongl    4      15
 
 
 
* Tue 3/22: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 03/22/2011|Guest Lecture: Burr Settles]]
 
** Student slot 1
 
** Student slot 2--
 
* Thu 3/24: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 03/24/2011|Information diffusion 1]]
 
** Student slot 1 [http://malt.ml.cmu.edu/mw/index.php/User_talk:Ssomanch Sriram Somanchi - Supervised Random Walk]
 
** Student slot 2 -- [http://malt.ml.cmu.edu/mw/index.php/User_talk:Dwijaya Derry Wijaya - A Measurement-driven Analysis of Information Propagation in the Flickr Social Network]
 
* Tue 3/29: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 03/29/2011|Information diffusion 2]]
 
** Student slot 1 --
 
** Student slot 2 -- Ming Sun - Topic Detection, Tracking, and Trend Analysis Using Self-Organizing Neural Networks
 
* Thu 3/31: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 03/31/2011|Diffusion and viral marketing]]
 
** Student slot 1 -- Anuj Goyal - The dynamics of viral marketing.
 
** Student slot 2 -- [[User:ssahebi | Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi]] - Suggesting Friends Using the Implicit Social Graph
 
** '''Assignment due''': two additional paper writeups in wiki format, plus two algorithms in wiki format
 
 
 
== April ==
 
 
 
* Tue 4/5: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 04/05/2011|Social Networks and Commerce]]
 
** Student slot 1 - [[User:bolin | Bo Lin]] - Trading Networks with Price-Setting Agents. (L. Blume, D. Easley, J. Kleinberg and E. Tardos. 2007)
 
** Student slot 2 - [[User:Kdelaros | Kevin Dela Rosa]] - Behavioral experiments in networked trade (Judd, J. S, and M. Kearns. 2008)
 
* Thu 4/7: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 04/07/2011|Anonymity in graphs]]
 
** Student slot 1 - [[User:nitina | Nitin Agarwal]] - The Author-Topic Model for Authors and Documents
 
** Student slot 2 -
 
* Tue 4/12: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 04/12/2011|Social problem-solving]]
 
** Student slot 1 - [[User:dpmills | Daniel Mills]] - An experimental study of the coloring problem on human subject networks
 
** Student slot 2 - [[User:askory | Adam Skory]] - Behavioral experiments on biased voting in networks.
 
** Student slot 3 - [[User:aoverwij | Arnold Overwijk]] - Behavioral dynamics and influence in networked coloring and consensus
 
* Thu 4/14: The [[Class Meeting for 10-802 04/14/2011|Time and Space in Networks]] class '''is cancelled, due to Spring Carnival.'''
 
* Tue 4/19: Student session
 
** Student slot 1 - [[User:dongyant | Dongyang Teng]]- What do you know? A topic-model approach to authority identification
 
** Student slot 2 - [[User:nqi | Niting Qi]]- Sequential Influence Models in Social Networks
 
** Student slot 3 - [[User:yandongl | Yandong Liu]] - Topic dynamics: an alternative model of bursts in streams of topics
 
* Thu 4/21: Student session
 
** Student slot 1 - [[User:gparent | Gabriel Parent]] - Who Leads Whom: Topical Lead-Lag Analysis across Corpora.
 
** Student slot 2 - [[User:manajs | Manaj]] Comments-oriented blog summarization by sentence extraction
 
** Student slot 3 - [[User:dyogatam | Dani Yogatama]] - Find me if you can: improving geographical prediction with social and spatial proximity
 
  
* Tue 4/26: project presentations
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== November ==
- GId Andrew-Ids                  #students  #Minutes-allocated
 
- 11  mings,yanbox,nitina,yandongl    4      20
 
- 10  manajs,subhodee                2      20
 
- 8  dpmills,ssahebi                2      20
 
 
 
* Thu 4/28: project presentations
 
- GId Andrew-Ids                  #students  #Minutes-allocated
 
- 4  dwijaya,reyyan                  2      20
 
- 2  aoverwij                        1      20
 
- 7  akgoyal,dyogatam,ssomanch      3      20
 
  
== May ==
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* Thus 11/1: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 11/1/2012|The Impact of User-Generated Content on Engagement and Commitment in Online Communities]] (Guest lecture from [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~yichiaw/ Yi-Chia Wang].)
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* Tues 11/6: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 11/6/2012|Social Networks and Politics]]
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* Tues 11/8: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 11/8/2012|Diffusion and Viral Marketing]]
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* Tues 11/13: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 11/13/2012|Mid-term Project Reports]]
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* Thus 11/15: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 11/15/2012|Mid-term Project Reports]]
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* Tues 11/20: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 11/20/2012|Local Navigation in Small-World Graphs]]
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* Thus 11/22 '''Thanksgiving - no class!'''
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* Tues 11/27: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 11/27/2012|Linguistic Coordination and Social Contagion]]
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* Thus 11/29: [[Class Meeting for 10-802 12/1/2012|Social Problem-Solving]]
  
* Tue 5/3: project presentations
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== December ==
-group Andrew-Ids                  #students  #Minutes-allocated
 
- 5  dongyant,mkas,nqi              3      20
 
- 3  askory,gparent                  2      20
 
- 1  bolin,kdelaros,rnshah          3      20
 
  
* '''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 [http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html the prescribed formatting guidelines of KDD (ACM Proceedings)].
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* Tues 12/4: [[Final project presentations 1]]
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* Thus 12/6: [[Final project presentations 2]]
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Tuesday 12/11 at Midnight EST: '''final projects are due'''

Latest revision as of 14:44, 30 November 2012

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

October

November

December

Tuesday 12/11 at Midnight EST: final projects are due