Class 04 – Feb 8 2016:
SNOW DAY.
- Postponed:
- Review PS-03
- Presentations by Lorzenzo and Sever.
- Our next class meets Feb 22
Northeastern has canceled day and evening classes Today. No class for us until Feb 22. I live near the Cape, and could easily loose power. I will make an effort to be available on slack Today from 6:00pm - 9:00pm for virtual office hours. Virtual attendance is not required.
I will post an update to our class website later this afternoon.
Makeup Work:
- If you are missing one or more problem sets, or if you would like to revisit or resubmit previous work, please work on those over the next two weeks, and bring them in.
- We need to reschedule all our presentations. New schedule:
- Feb 22: Lucy and Cara
- Feb 29: Lorzenzo and Sever
- Mar 14: June and Andrew
- Mar 28: Kimi and Jiani
- Apr 4: Jessie and Patric
- Mar 28: Ryan
Final Projects:
You should starting planning your final projects topics. On the 22nd we will be reviewing rough drafts of proposals. Bring in 2 proposal ideas per person. These can are rough pitches, one paragraph, and a few thumnail sketches for each proposal.
- I have started to archive posts containing certain twitter hash tags. If you have some tags you want me to start archiving from twitter, please let me know.
*You can work with data from flickr, instagram, twitter, or google+. I am currently only capturing tweets, but can add other services.
- Advanced: We can post-process social message data for example to extract sentiment.
- To get situated in social media topics, read this recent paper by danah boyd. What World Are We Building? - danah has been researching online behavior and critiquing social media for more than 10 years. Her primary concern is about online youth, but her work is generally applicable.
- Lev Mannovich has been doing interesting experiments with large volumes of instagram images. See for example The Exceptional and the Everyday: 144 hours in Kyiv
- Big list of recommended journal articles on Big Data. A few papers and sections may be of interest, though I have not vetted any of them yet: http://www.cs.nyu.edu/faculty/davise/papers/BigDataBib.html
- Do some independent research when trying to identify a topic. It would be great to share in-process thoughts, or interesting papers / visualizations with the group in slack along the way. Here are some (half-baked) idea launch pads if you need some inspiration.
- Twitter Bots, especially bots that make images. ★
- SEO / Brand management, engagement, spam.
- Richard Price and the Suicide Grils
- [Images, privacy and the abuse(http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/technology/personaltech/12basics.html?_r=0) of exif data.
- clickbait, A/B testing, the echo chamber and the decline of mainstream media.
- For-hire followers, paid engagement, cpc rates, and add bidding.
- The role of social media in political change.
- Hate speach and the attention marketplace. Trolls.
- Metrics of social influence, and the hyperconnected.
*Comparing trends between multiple social media outlets, and broadcast / mainstream media.
- Mapping social trends. (Note; generally most tweets don't contain lat / long data. Sometimes it can be extacted in other ways).
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