Social Data Mining detailed syllabus for Computer Science & Design (CSD) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the CSD students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Computer Science & Design 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit CSD 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-IV scheme and its subjects refer to CSD Professional Elective-IV syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of social data mining is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
DATA MINING FOUNDATIONS
Introduction – Data mining functionalities – Classification of Data mining systems – Preprocessing – Association Rules and Sequential Patterns – Supervised Learning – Unsupervised Learning -Partially Supervised Learning – Association Rule Mining – Classification – Clustering.
Unit II
ANALYZING THE SOCIAL WEB
Introduction – Nodes, Edges, and Network Measures – Network Structure and Measures – Network Visualization – Social Information Filtering – Social Media in the Public Sector- Privacy
Unit III
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Unit I
ES AND INTERACTIONS
Community Analysis – Detection – Evolution – Evaluation – Information Diffusion in social media -Herd behavior – Information Cascades – Diffusion of Innovations – Epidemics
Unit V
APPLICATIONS
Influence and Homophily – Recommendation in Social Media – Classical Recommendation Algorithms – Recommendation using Social Context – Evaluating Recommendations – Behavior Analytics- Individual and Collective Behavior
Course Outcomes:
- Students will study to collect user-generated information from social media platforms.
- Extract valuable data from consumers for identifying patterns and trends
- Perform social media monitoring and arrive business conclusions for application.
- Detection of spammers and bots in social media platform.
- Exploring the research perspective of social media data.
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Reza Zafarani, Mohammad Ali Abbasi and Huan Liu, “Social Media Mining – An Introduction”, Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Matthew A.Russell, “Mining the social web”, 2nd edition- O’Reilly Media, 2013.
- Jennifer Golbeck, Analyzing the social web, Morgan Kaufmann, 2013.
- Social Media Data Mining and Analytics Paperback ,by Gabor Szabo , Gungor Polatkan , P. Oscar Boykin , Antonios Chalkiopoulos ,Wiely Publisher 2018
- Advanced Data Mining Tools and Methods for Social Computing ,Sourav De, Sandip Dey, Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, Surbhi Bhatia,Elsiever,2022
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