INFORMATION VISUALIZATION, DATA SCIENCE AND SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYTICS MOD.1

Academic year
2023/2024 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
INFORMATION VISUALIZATION, DATA SCIENCE AND SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYTICS MOD.1
Course code
FM0533 (AF:378388 AR:257750)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6 out of 12 of INFORMATION VISUALIZATION, DATA SCIENCE AND SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYTICS
Degree level
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
Educational sector code
INF/01
Period
1st Term
Course year
2
Moodle
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The course aims at providing an overview of concepts, methods and techniques for data exploration, analysis and visualisation, with particular emphasis on social media data (.e.g, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter). The course will also provide an introduction to network analysis.

- Using API to retrieve social media data
- Performing sentiment analysis and emotion detection on user data
- Analysing user interactions on social media
- Extracting conversational topics from social media discussions
- Identifying communities of interest (e.g., echo chambers)

- Basic computing knowledge (basic functions of the operating system, web browsing, e-mail, Office working suites, search engines)
- Good knowledge of Python (or equivalent, e.g., R)

- Introduction to data science and social media analysis
- Working with API
- Data and Information Visualisation
- Topic Extraction
- Sentiment Analysis
- Network Analysis

Non attending students are invited to contact the instructor.

(This outline may be subject to change)

- Easley, David, and Jon Kleinberg. Networks, crowds, and markets. Vol. 8. Cambridge: Cambridge university press, 2010.
- Wilke, Claus O. Fundamentals of data visualization: a primer on making informative and compelling figures. O'Reilly Media, 2019.

The final oral exam consists of theoretical questions about the course content, and of the presentation of a project previously agreed with the instructor.
Frontal interactive lessons, group work
English
oral
Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 09/03/2023