COT 6930: Social Networks and Big Data Analytics Schedule

Please refer to the Blackboard for the PPT slides of each lecture

Please also refer to the Resource for the reference and reading materials for each lecture

• Introduction
• Social Networks and Mining Algorithms
• Graph Theory [RMN, NCM Chapters 1 and 2; SNM Chapter 10]
• Page Rank and Web Search [MSD]
• Community Detection [CDM Chapter 3]
• Link Prediction and Trend Modeling [NCM Chapter 14]
• Social Influence Modeling [NCM Chapters 16, 18, 19, DJE, JLM]
• Social Network Sites Data Characteristics
• YouTube [MZK, MCH, XCC]
• Twitter [AJX, HKC]
• Big Data Analytics
• Introduction to MapReduce
• MapReduce Programming Model
• Social Network Mining Algorihtms and MapReduce