Syllabus for Analysis of Social Media 10-802 in Spring 2011

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 The slides available may be out of date (from the last version of the class) but will be updated after each lecture.

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 of course, and review of some past projects

February

• Tue 2/1: Guest lecture: Ari Lightman
• Thu 2/3: Guest Lecture: Moira Burke
• Tue 2/8: Graph Background 3: Spectral Methods
• Thu 2/10: Graph Background 4: Probabilistic Graph Models.
• Tue 2/15: Graph Background 3: Spectral Methods
• Thu 2/17: UGraph Background 4: Probabilistic Graph Models
• Tue 2/22: Unsupervised models for text in graphs 1
• Thu 2/24: Unsupervised models for text in graphs 2

March

• Tue 3/1: Local navigation in small-world graphs 1
• Thu 3/3: Local navigation in small-world graphs 2.
• Tue 3/8: Spring Break
• Thu 3/10: Spring Break
• Tue 3/15: mid-term project reports
• Thu 3/17: mid-term project reports
• Tue 3/22: Guest Lecture: Burr Settles
• Thu 3/24: Information diffusion 1
• Tue 3/29: Information diffusion 2
• Thu 3/31: Diffusion and viral marketing

April

• Tue 4/5: To be decided.
• 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
• Tue 4/26: project presentations
• Thu 4/28: project presentations

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).