Social Media Data Mining and Analysis
INFX 598 Syllabus (Winter 2012)
| Instructor | TA | ||||||||||
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David McDonald
Office: MGH 330R Email: dwmc@uw.edu
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Jared Bauer
Office: TBD Email: jaredsb@uw.edu
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Course Meetings
Monday and Wednesday, 1:30-3:20pm in MGH 254
Description
Social Media is an important and growing phenomena on the Internet. These systems enable hundreds of thousands of people to contribute their own content and meta-data to web enabled systems. Since these systems grow and change as a function of the individuals who participate, understanding the individuals, the forms of participation, the types and styles of contributions are important to designing and refining social media systems. This course will prepare students to grapple with and analyze the changing nature of social media.
This course explores techniques for collecting and analyzing social media. Students gain experience with methods for collecting a social media corpus, defining features of activity that are relevant for analysis and analyzing those features.
Grading
The course is composed of readings, assignments and a class project.
| Assignments | 60% | (Approximately weekly) | ||
| Project | 30% | (Team) | ||
| Class Participation | 10% |
Course Book
The course has one required book. Readings from the book are assigned as listed on the reading schedule. The book has a very practical tone. The best way to understand this book is to skim through the chapter, then sit down at a computer with the book and work through the examples in the assigned chapter.
| Required Texts | |
| Russell, Matthew (2011) Mining the Social Web. O'Reilly Media Inc. | |
| ISBN: 978-1-449-38834-8 | |
iSchool Syllabus Inclusions
The iSchool has some required syllabus inclusions that may apply to this course.