Web and Social Networks Analysis

DS06
Semester: 2nd,
ECTS Credits: 7.5

Vassiliki Koutsonikola

(Course Coordinator)

Syllabus

  • Introduction to Social Networks (Basic concepts – representation of social networks)
  • Social Network Analysis Techniques
  • Data Collection & Use of APIs
  • Application of Data Analysis Algorithms
  • Sentiment Extraction from Social Web Data
  • Topic Modeling from Social Web Data
  • Fake News & Bot Detection
  • The Future of Data Analysis in the World Wide Web and Social Web

Recommended Bibliography

  • John Scott: Social Network Analysis: A Handbook 2nd Edition, SAGE Publications Ltd, 2000
  • Zafarani et al: Social Media Mining, Cambridge University Press, 2015
  • Charles Kadushin: Understanding Social Networks: Theories, Concepts and Findings, First Edition. Oxford University Press, 2011.
  • Stanley Wasserman and Katherine Faust: Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications. First Edition. Cambridge University Press, 1994.