Social Networks and Big Data Methods (Summer 2026): Difference between revisions
| (6 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown) | |||
| Line 16: | Line 16: | ||
Evaluation will be based on attendance (10%), class participation (10%), presentation (30%), and final project (50%). | Evaluation will be based on attendance (10%), class participation (10%), presentation (30%), and final project (50%). | ||
Paper presentation requirements: | |||
1. At least 12 mins; | |||
2. Clear statement of the research questions in the papers; | |||
3. Focus on methods and results. | |||
Final project requirements: replicate a paper related to social network analysis: | |||
1. Single column; | |||
2. 10pt font, 1.5x line spacing; | |||
3. You can have as many images and tables as you want; | |||
4. 10 pages; | |||
5. Focus on the methods and results; | |||
6. 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 | Slides: https://github.com/sophieball/social_network | ||
| Line 24: | Line 46: | ||
Software: Python Networkx, Jupyter notebook, pandas | Software: Python Networkx, Jupyter notebook, pandas | ||
Example: https://github.com/sophieball/social_network/tree/main/code | |||
Tutorial: http://networkx.org/documentation/stable/tutorial.html | Tutorial: http://networkx.org/documentation/stable/tutorial.html | ||
==Ideas for Final Project== | |||
1. 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 | |||
2. Online extremism and the communities that sustain it: Detecting the ISIS supporting community on Twitter | |||
3. Identifying Social Roles in reddit Using Network Structure | |||
==Schedule (Tentative)== | ==Schedule (Tentative)== | ||
| Line 42: | Line 76: | ||
| align="right" | 22.04.2026 (14:00-16:00) | | align="right" | 22.04.2026 (14:00-16:00) | ||
| Random networks; Edges vs social ties; sign up for presentation | | Random networks; Edges vs social ties; sign up for presentation | ||
| | |[https://github.com/sophieball/social_network/blob/main/w2_1_random_networks.pdf slide3] | ||
| | | | ||
|- | |- | ||
| align="right" | 29.04.2026 (14:00-16:00) | | align="right" | 29.04.2026 (14:00-16:00) | ||
| Triads and structural balance; From social processes to graphs | | 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] | ||
| | | | ||
|- | |- | ||
| align="right" | 06.05.2026 (14:00-16:00) | | align="right" | 06.05.2026 (14:00-16:00) | ||
| | | Cancelled - Sophie is sick. | ||
| | | | ||
| | | | ||
|- | |- | ||
| align="right" | 13.05.2026 (14:00-16:00) | | align="right" | 13.05.2026 (14:00-16:00) | ||
| Power and centrality in social networks; social exchange | | 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 | | Investigating Centrality Measures in Social Networks with Community Structure | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Line 66: | Line 100: | ||
|- | |- | ||
| align="right" | 27.05.2026 (14:00-16:00) | | 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 | | Overlapping community and entropy of neighborhood information for identifying influential nodes in complex networks | ||
|- | |- | ||
| align="right" | 03.06.2026 (14:00-16:00) | | align="right" | 03.06.2026 (14:00-16:00) | ||
| | | Homophily and degree correlation (parts 1 & 2) | ||
| | | | ||
| | | LLMs generate structurally realistic social networks but overestimate political homophily | ||
|- | |- | ||
| align="right" | 10.06.2026 (14:00-16:00) | | align="right" | 10.06.2026 (14:00-16:00) | ||