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The Golden Rule of XXXX: No member of the XXXX community shall take unfair advantage of any other member of the XXXX community.
This course introduces fundamental as well as applied computational techniques for collaborative and collective intelligence of group behaviours on the Internet. The emphasis of the course is on data mining and knowledge discovery of social interactions, signals and data that are the byproduct of social media services such as search engines, social network sites, blogs, micro-blogs, wikis, etc. The course topics include, but are not limited to: web data mining, knowledge discovery on the web, web analytics, web information retrieval, ranking algorithms, recommender systems, human computation, models and theories about social networks, large graph and link-based algorithms, social marketing, monetization of the web, security/privacy issues related to social computing, etc.
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Name | Irwin King | ||
irwinking AT gmail.com | |||
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The pdf files are created in Acrobat 6.0. Please obtain the correct version of the Acrobat Reader from Adobe.
Week | Date | Topics | Tutorials | Homework & Events | Resources |
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1 | 7/9 | Introduction to Web Intelligence and Social Computing Web 2.0 01-Introduction.pdf | Tutorial on Python | Tim O'Reilly on Web 2.0, The Economist, 20/3/2009 | |
2 | 14/9 | Introduction to Web Intelligence and Social Computing | Regular Expressions Web Crawler | Introduction to Social Networks | |
3 | 21/9 | Social Networks-Theory Graph Theory 02-SNA-02.pdf NEW! | Graph Visualization | SWT Theory | |
4 | 28/9 | Graph Mining 03-GraphMining-01.pdf | Graph Mining Algorithms hits.ppt | Generating Random Graphs The Clique Algorithm |
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5 | 5/10 | Link Analysis 04-LinkAnalysis-01.pdf NEW! | PageRank, HITS, etc. | Introduction to Information Retrieval | |
6 | 12/10 | Learning to Rank 05-Learning2Rank-02.pdf NEW! | PageRank | Project Specification Movie Dataset | |
7 | 19/10 | Recommender Systems I 06-Recommender-01.pdf | Evaluation Methods | ||
8 | 26/10 | Recommender Systems II Query Expansion CIKM2008 Query Suggestion | QF/IQF | ||
9 | 2/11 | Human Computation/Social Games 07-HumanComputation-01.pdf NEW! | humancomputation.ppt | Guest Speaker | |
10 | 9/11 | Crowdsourcing | language model | ||
11 | 16/11 | Q&A Virtual Communities CSC4170-08-QandA.pdf | Wikis, Blogs, etc. | ||
12 | 23/11 | Privacy and Security of Information Education, Policy 09-Security.pdf NEW! | |||
13 | 30/11 | TBA | |||
14 | 7/12 | TBA | |||
15 | 14/12 | Wrap Up Project Presentations | EduTech on Social Computing in Education |
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Homework Assignments | Project Report | Project Presentation | Final Examination |
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20% | 20% | 10% | 50% |