Mining Twitter: twitter in all the rage – Exploring Twitter‟s API , Analyzing the 140 characters. Mining Facebook: Exploring Facebook‟s social Graph API – Analyzing social graph connections. Mining Google+: Exploring the Google+ API. Mining web pages: Scraping, Parsing and crawling the Web.
Analyzing the social web: Nodes, Edges and Network Measures, Basics of network structure, Representing networks, Basic Network structures and properties – Network Structure and Measures, Describing nodes and edges, Describing networks. Entity Resolution and Link Prediction.
Community Maintained Resources: Supporting technologies for community maintained resources, User motivations-Location based social interaction , location technology, mobile location sharing- Social Information Sharing and social filtering, Automated recommender system – Social Media in the public sector, Analyzing public sector social media.
Random walks in social networks and their applications a survey: Random walks on Graphs - Background – Related work: Algorithms , Applications , Evaluation and datasets. A survey of link prediction in social networks: Feature based link prediction, Bayesian probabilistic models. Privacy in social networks: Privacy breaches in social networks.
Visualizing social networks: A Taxonomy of visualizations – The convergence of Visualization, Interaction and Analytics. Data mining in social media – Text mining in social networks – Integrating sensors and social networks – Multimedia information networks
Reference Book:
1. Tina Yesayan, "Social Networking: A Guide to Strengthening Civil Society Through Social Media(SMGuide4CSO)," U S Agency for International Development, 2014. ISBN: ISBN: 978-1853399084. 2. Subhasish Dasgupta, "Social Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications," Information Science Reference, Hershey, New York, 2010, ISBN: 9781605669847 3. Todd Kelsey, "Social Networking Spaces: From Facebook to Twitter and Everything in Between," Apress the experts voice, 2010, ISBN: 978-1-4302-2597-3. 4. Davina Rungen, "Web 2.0 and Social Computing," Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011. ISBN: 978-384543224
Text Book:
1. Matthew A. Russell, "Mining the Social Web: Data Mining Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Google+, Github, and More," 2nd Edition, O'Reilly Media, 2013, ISBN: 978-94-007-0257-8. 2. Jennifer Golbeck, "Analyzing the social web," Morgan Kaufmann, 2013. ISBN: 978-0-12-405531-5 3. Charu Aggarwal (ed.), "Social Network Data Analytics," Springer, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4419-8462-3
