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

Academic year
2024/2025 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
INFORMATION VISUALIZATION, DATA SCIENCE AND SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYTICS MOD.1
Course code
FM0533 (AF:448501 AR:285034)
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
Where
VENEZIA
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. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Barabási, Albert-László. Network Science. Cambridge University Press, 2016

The final exam consists of an oral test lasting approximately 30 minutes, during which students will present and discuss a project previously agreed upon with the instructor. The aim of the project is to apply the methods, tools, and techniques learned during the course, developing an original analysis. The project can be carried out in groups of two students. The evaluation will take into account the accuracy with which the project is carried out according to the guidelines, as well as the technical and expressive skills demonstrated in the elaboration of the project and in the discussion.
Frontal interactive lessons, group work
English
oral
Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 05/03/2024