SOCIAL MEDIA AND WEB ANALYTICS

Academic year
2023/2024 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
SOCIAL MEDIA AND WEB ANALYTICS
Course code
EM1421 (AF:382727 AR:211620)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
Educational sector code
INF/01
Period
1st Term
Course year
2
Where
VENEZIA
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The course aims at providing an overview of concepts, methods and techniques for exploring, analysing and visualising data from main social media platforms (e.g., Facebook, YouTube, Twitter). The course will also provide an introduction to social 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 R (or equivalent, e.g. Python)
- Introduction to data science and social media analysis
- Working with API
- Data and Information Visualisation
- Topic Extraction
- Sentiment Analysis
- Social Network Analysis

(This outline may be subject to change)
To be defined
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