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

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 The slides available may be out of date (from the last version of the class) but will be updated after each lecture.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

February

 -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       5
 - GId Andrew-Ids                  #students   #Minutes-allocated
 - 2   aoverwij                        1       5
 - 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

March

  • Tue 3/1: 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: 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
  • Thu 3/17: mid-term project reports
  • Tue 3/22: Guest Lecture: Burr Settles
    • Student slot 1 -- Niting Qi
    • Student slot 2-- Dongyang Teng - What do you know? A topic-model approach to authority identification
  • Thu 3/24: Information diffusion 1
    • Student slot 1 Sriram Somanchi
    • Student slot 2 -- Derry Wijaya - A Measurement-driven Analysis of Information Propagation in the Flickr Social Network
  • Tue 3/29: Information diffusion 2
    • Student slot 1 -- Dani Yogatama - Community gravity: measuring bidirectional effects by trust and rating on online social networks.
    • Student slot 2 -- Ming Sun - The Author-Topic Model for Authors and Documents
  • Thu 3/31: Diffusion and viral marketing
    • Student slot 1 -- Anuj Goyal - The dynamics of viral marketing.
    • Student slot 2 -- Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi - Suggesting Friends Using the Implicit Social Graph

April

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).