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 The slides available may be out of date (from the last version of the class) but will be updated after each lecture.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

 -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

April

  • Tue 4/5: Social Networks and Commerce
    • Student slot 1 - Bo Lin - Trading Networks with Price-Setting Agents. (L. Blume, D. Easley, J. Kleinberg and E. Tardos. 2007)
    • Student slot 2 - Kevin Dela Rosa - Behavioral experiments in networked trade (Judd, J. S, and M. Kearns. 2008)
  • Thu 4/7: Anonymity in graphs
  • Tue 4/12: Social problem-solving
    • Student slot 1 - Daniel Mills - An experimental study of the coloring problem on human subject networks
    • Student slot 2 - Adam Skory - Behavioral experiments on biased voting in networks.
  • Thu 4/14: Time and Space in Networks
    • Student slot 1 - Yandong Liu - Topic dynamics: an alternative model of bursts in streams of topics
    • Student slot 2 - Dani Yogatama - Find me if you can: improving geographical prediction with social and spatial proximity
  • Tue 4/19: to be determined
    • Student slot 1 - Dongyang Teng- What do you know? A topic-model approach to authority identification
    • Student slot 2 - Gabriel Parent - Who Leads Whom: Topical Lead-Lag Analysis across Corpora.
  • 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).