Social Networks and Big Data Methods (Summer 2026): Difference between revisions

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 Evaluation will be based on attendance (10%), class participation (10%), presentation (30%), and final project (50%).
+Paper presentation requirements:
+. At least 12 mins;
+. Clear statement of the research questions in the papers;
+. Focus on methods and results.
+Final project requirements: replicate a paper related to social network analysis:
+. Single column;
+. 10pt font, 1.5x line spacing;
+. You can have as many images and tables as you want;
+. 10 pages;
+. Focus on the methods and results;
+. For all networks, present their basic descriptions (size, density, degree distributions, number of largest components, size of largest components, etc)
 Slides: https://github.com/sophieball/social_network
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 Data: Kaggle
-Software: Python Networkx, Jupyter notebook
+Software: Python Networkx, Jupyter notebook, pandas
+Example: https://github.com/sophieball/social_network/tree/main/code
+Tutorial: http://networkx.org/documentation/stable/tutorial.html
+==Ideas for Final Project==
+. Do Women Suffer from  Network Closure? The Moderating Effect of Social Capital on Gender Inequality  in a Project-Based Labor Market, 1929 to 2010
+Data:https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/rishabjadhav/imdb-actors-and-movies
+. Online extremism and the communities that sustain it: Detecting the ISIS supporting community on Twitter
+. Identifying Social Roles in reddit Using Network Structure
 ==Schedule (Tentative)==
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 |{{Hl2}} |'''Date'''
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-|{{Hl2}} |'''Presenters'''
+|{{Hl2}} |'''Slides'''
+|{{Hl2}} |'''Papers'''
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 | align="right" | 15.04.2026 (14:00-16:00)
 | Introduction; Intro to graph theory
+|[https://github.com/sophieball/social_network/blob/main/w1_1_introduction.pdf slide1][https://github.com/sophieball/social_network/blob/main/w1_2_graph_theory.pdf slide2]
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 | align="right" | 22.04.2026 (14:00-16:00)
 | Random networks; Edges vs social ties; sign up for presentation
+|[https://github.com/sophieball/social_network/blob/main/w2_1_random_networks.pdf slide3]
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 | align="right" | 29.04.2026 (14:00-16:00)
 | Triads and structural balance; From social processes to graphs
+|[https://github.com/sophieball/social_network/blob/main/w2_2_edge_vs_social_ties.pdf slide4] [https://github.com/sophieball/social_network/blob/main/w3_1_triads_and_structural_balance.pdf slide5]
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 | align="right" | 06.05.2026 (14:00-16:00)
-| Homophily and degree correlation (parts 1 & 2)
+| Cancelled - Sophie is sick.
-| LLMs generate structurally realistic social networks but overestimate political homophily
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 | align="right" | 13.05.2026 (14:00-16:00)
 | Power and centrality in social networks; social exchange
+|[https://github.com/sophieball/social_network/blob/main/w5_1_power_and_centrality_in_social_networks.pdf slide6] [https://github.com/sophieball/social_network/blob/main/w5_2_power_and_centrality_in_exchange.pdf slide7]
 | Investigating Centrality Measures in Social Networks with Community Structure
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 | align="right" | 20.05.2026 (14:00-16:00)
 | Detecting communities; Structural equivalence
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 | Measuring group fairness in community detection
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 | align="right" | 27.05.2026 (14:00-16:00)
-| Affiliations and overlapping subgroups
+| Affiliations and overlapping subgroups, SUBMIT FINAL REPORT IDEA
+|
 | Overlapping community and entropy of neighborhood information for identifying influential nodes in complex networks
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 | align="right" | 03.06.2026 (14:00-16:00)
-| TBD
+| Homophily and degree correlation (parts 1 & 2)
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+| LLMs generate structurally realistic social networks but overestimate political homophily
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 | align="right" | 10.06.2026 (14:00-16:00)
 | Network Analysis of Open Source Software; Visualization
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 | Connected to Stay: Gender Homophily and Its Role in Open-Source Software Developer Retention
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 | align="right" | 17.06.2026 (14:00-16:00)
 | Scale-free networks; Network inequality
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 | Quantifying Information Distribution in Social Networks: The Structural Entropy Index of Community (SEIC) for Twitter Communication Analysis
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 | align="right" | 24.06.2026 (14:00-16:00)
 | Small-world networks; Social Capital (part 1)
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 | Analyzing digital propaganda and conflict rhetoric: a study on Russia’s bot-driven campaigns and counter-narratives during the Ukraine crisis
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 | align="right" | 01.07.2026 (14:00-16:00)
 | Social Capital (part 2); Diffusion and contagion
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 | Do Women Suffer from Network Closure? The Moderating Effect of Social Capital on Gender Inequality in a Project-Based Labor Market, 1929 to 2010
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 | align="right" | 08.07.2026 (14:00-16:00)
 | Ethical issues; Exemplary studies
-| Measuring group fairness in community detection
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+| FairSNA: Algorithmic Fairness in Social Network Analysis
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 | align="right" | 15.07.2026 (14:00-16:00)
 | Guest lecture
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 | align="right" | 22.07.2026 (14:00-16:00)
 | Final Project Presentations
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