CS 4984 - Social Computing Capstone
Fall 2017
Schedule
| Wk | Day | Topic | Readings | Due |
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| 1 | Tue 8/29 | Course Introduction + Background
Student Bios |
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| Thu 8/31 | Overview of Social Media Sites
Project Announcements Bio submission + Start Teaming |
Why We Twitter: Understanding Microblogging Usage and Communities [pdf]
Is It Really About Me?: Message Content in Social Awareness Streams [pdf] |
Reading Reflections (due 10am)
BIOS (in Piazza) + Start discussing your project pitches (1-2mins pitch – not graded) in Piazza. It allows feedback from others and team formation. |
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| 2 | Tue 9/5 | Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community [pdf]
4chan and/b: An Analysis of Anonymity and Ephemerality in a Large Online Community [pdf] |
Reading Reflections (due 10am) | |
| Thu 9/7 | Social System Design | Social Translucence: An Approach to Designing Systems that Support Social Processes [pdf]
The Chat Circles Series: Explorations in Designing Abstract Graphical Comm. Interfaces [pdf] |
Reading Reflections (due 10am) | |
| 3 | Tue 9/12 | Deviant Communities
Practicum - Analytics |
Antisocial Behavior in Online Discussion Communities [pdf]
In-class activity – bring laptops (Instructor-led practicum) |
Reading Reflections (due 10am)
Warm-up homework out (in Canvas) |
| Thu 9/14 | Continue - Practicum Analytics
Project Discussion - Pitch Prep |
In-class activity – bring laptops (Instructor-led practicum)
(Optional Reading) |
Finalize project pitches and teams. (Send Team names to instructor *BEFORE CLASS*) |
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| 4 | Tue 9/19 | Project Pitch Presentation | Project Pitch Presentation - (due in-class)
In-class discussion/get-feedback/brain-storm about project pitches/refine pitches if needed. |
Teams formed + Project pitches (in-class) |
| Thu 9/21 | No Class - Instructor out at TAPIA conference | Work on proposals (no in-class meeting) | Project Proposal Report (due 11:59pm on Fri 9/22) | |
| 5 | Tue 9/26 | Project Day | Project Day - Plan work with team members
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| Thu 9/28 | Project Day | Project Day (Discuss & plan practicum presentations) |
Warm-up homework (due 11:59pm)
Sign-up for practicum presentations (in-class) |
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| 6 | Tue 10/3 | Project day | Project Day | Email practicum topic to instructor *BEFORE CLASS* |
| Thu 10/5 | Practicum - Student Spotlight | In-class activity - bring laptops
Presentation Team 1: Anonymous Presentation Team 4: Robobot |
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| 7 | Tue 10/10 | Practicum - Student Spotlight | In-class activity - bring laptops
Presentation Team 2: The Three Amigos-Robocop Presentation Team 6: Mediators |
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| Thu 10/12 | Practicum - Student Spotlight | In-class activity - bring laptops
Presentation Team 3: Tweet Police Presentation Team 5: Devil's Advocate |
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| 8 | Tue 10/17 | Quantiative Analytics | In-class activity - bring laptops (Instructor-led practicum) | Install R-studio before class |
| Thu 10/19 | Language in Social Media
Project work |
The Language that Gets People to Give: Phrases that Predict Success on Kickstarter [pdf] | Reading Reflections (due 10am) | |
| 9 | Tue 10/24 | Project day | Project day | |
| Thu 10/26 | Project day | Project day (work on mid-term reports) | Midterm Project Presentation (due 1:59pm) | |
| 10 | Tue 10/31 | Midterm Project Presentation | Show Time! (6 to 8mins + 2 to 3mins for Questions) | Midterm Project Report (due 11:59pm) |
| Thu 11/2 | Project Day | Project Day (No in-class meeting) | ||
| 11 | Tue 11/7 | Visualizing Social Data Project work |
Visualizing Email Content: Portraying Relationships from Conversational Histories [pdf] | Reading Reflections (due 10am) |
| Thu 11/9 | Project Day | Project Day | ||
| 12 | Tue 11/14 | Project Day | Project Day | |
| Thu 11/16 | Practicum - Student Spotlight | In-class activity - bring laptops
All Team Presentations |
Practicum Presentations (due 1:59pm) | |
| 13 | Tue 11/21 | Project Day | Project Day (No in-class meeting)
Instructor out at ICDM conference |
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| Thu 11/23 | NO CLASS - Thanksgiving | |||
| 14 | Tue 11/28 | Project Day | Project Day | |
| Thu 11/30 | Project Day (no in-class meeting) | Extended office hours - 2pm to 4pm (Torg 3160E) | ||
| 15 | Tue 12/5 | Project Day | Project Day | |
| Thu 12/7 | Project Presentation | Show Time! | Final presentations (slides + video due 1:59pm) | |
| 16 | Tue 12/12 | No class - Work on final report | ||
| Thu 12/14 | No class - Reading Day | |||
| Sat 12/16 | (Exam Day) Submit Final Report and Peer Evaluations | Final Report (due 3:05pm)
Peer Evaluations (due 11:59pm) |