Course

An Introduction to social network data analytics: research Issues, statistical properties of social networks, random walks in social networks and their applications: survey, applications, community discovery in social networks , node classification in social networks , evolution in social networks – survey, survey of models and algorithms for social influence analysis, survey of algorithms and systems for expert location in social networks, survey of link prediction in social networks, data mining in social media, text mining in social networks

Text and Reference

• Charu C. Aggrawal : Social Network Data Analytics,Springer,
• Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio. Introduction to Computational Social Science, Springer, 2014.

2. Matthew A. Russell. Mining the Social Web: Data Mining Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Google+, Github, and More, 2nd Edition, O’Reilly Media, 2013.
3. Robert Hanneman and Mark Riddle. Introduction to social network methods. Online Text Book, 2005.