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==Schedule (Tentative)== | ==Schedule (Tentative)== | ||
Revision as of 14:55, 22 April 2026
Overview
Room: -1.101 (PC Pool), IFI, Goldschmidtstr. 7
Time: Wednesdays 14:00-16:00 weekly, starting 15.04.2026
Lecturers: Huilian Sophie Qiu, Xiaoming Fu
Module: M.Inf.1129
ECTS: 5
Format
Each class consists of a 1h lecture and a 1h student presentation.
Evaluation will be based on attendance (10%), class participation (10%), presentation (30%), and final project (50%).
Slides: https://github.com/sophieball/social_network
Data and Software
Data: Kaggle
Software: Python Networkx, Jupyter notebook, pandas
Tutorial: http://networkx.org/documentation/stable/tutorial.html
Schedule (Tentative)
| Date | Topic | Presenters |
| 15.04.2026 (14:00-16:00) | Introduction; Intro to graph theory | |
| 22.04.2026 (14:00-16:00) | Random networks; Edges vs social ties; sign up for presentation | |
| 29.04.2026 (14:00-16:00) | Triads and structural balance; From social processes to graphs | |
| 06.05.2026 (14:00-16:00) | Homophily and degree correlation (parts 1 & 2) | LLMs generate structurally realistic social networks but overestimate political homophily |
| 13.05.2026 (14:00-16:00) | Power and centrality in social networks; social exchange | Investigating Centrality Measures in Social Networks with Community Structure |
| 20.05.2026 (14:00-16:00) | Detecting communities; Structural equivalence | Measuring group fairness in community detection |
| 27.05.2026 (14:00-16:00) | Affiliations and overlapping subgroups | Overlapping community and entropy of neighborhood information for identifying influential nodes in complex networks |
| 03.06.2026 (14:00-16:00) | TBD | |
| 10.06.2026 (14:00-16:00) | Network Analysis of Open Source Software; Visualization | Connected to Stay: Gender Homophily and Its Role in Open-Source Software Developer Retention |
| 17.06.2026 (14:00-16:00) | Scale-free networks; Network inequality | Quantifying Information Distribution in Social Networks: The Structural Entropy Index of Community (SEIC) for Twitter Communication Analysis |
| 24.06.2026 (14:00-16:00) | Small-world networks; Social Capital (part 1) | Analyzing digital propaganda and conflict rhetoric: a study on Russia’s bot-driven campaigns and counter-narratives during the Ukraine crisis |
| 01.07.2026 (14:00-16:00) | Social Capital (part 2); Diffusion and contagion | Do Women Suffer from Network Closure? The Moderating Effect of Social Capital on Gender Inequality in a Project-Based Labor Market, 1929 to 2010 |
| 08.07.2026 (14:00-16:00) | Ethical issues; Exemplary studies | FairSNA: Algorithmic Fairness in Social Network Analysis |
| 15.07.2026 (14:00-16:00) | Guest lecture | |
| 22.07.2026 (14:00-16:00) | Final Project Presentations | |
| TBA | Written Report |