Semester	Spring Semester, 2025
Department	Freshman Class of Department of Computer Science Sophomore Class of Department of Computer Science
Course Name	Data Analysis for Social media
Instructor	HSIEH PEI-HSUAN
Credit	3.0
Course Type	Elective
Prerequisite

Course Objective

Course Description

Course Schedule

Week	Date	Topic	Content and Reading Assignment	Teaching Activities & HW
1	Feb 21	Intro.	Syllabus Review, SM Platforms	Lecture
2	Feb 28	SNA Basics	[NO CLASS] Data Sources and Types	Ind. SM User Report
3	Mar 07		Data Collection and Analysis Methods 1/2	Lecture
4	Mar 14		Data Collection and Analysis Methods 2/2	Lecture
5	Mar 21	SNA no.1-2	LinkedIn	Lecture and Hands-on Practices
6	Mar 28	SNA no.1-2	Instagram	Lecture and Hands-on Practices
7	Apr 04	[NO CLASS] Group Project Proposal: Recording		(SNA no.3) Ind. Discord Data Analysis
8	Apr 11	SNA no.4-5	Pinterest	Lecture and Hands-on Practices
9	Apr 18	SNA no.4-5	Snapchat	Lecture and Hands-on Practices
10	Apr 25	Exam 1/2	Ind. Midterm Exam	Ind. Learning Reflection 1/2
11	May 02	SNA no.6-9	Reddit	Lecture and Hands-on Practices
12	May 09		TikTok
13	May 16		YouTube
14	May 23		Game: Roblox
15	May 30	[NO CLASS] Group Project Presentation: Recording		(SNA no.10) Ind. Medium Data Analysis
16	Jun 06	Exam 2/2	Ind. Final-term Exam	Ind. Learning Reflection 2/2
17	Jun 13	Ethics of SNA	Accuracy, Anonymity, Consent, Privacy	Ind. SNA Research Paper Review
18	Jun 20	Ethics of SNA	AI/Individual Standing, Psychological harm	Lecture

Teaching Methods

Teaching Assistant

TBD

Requirement/Grading

20%: Term Exams (midterm and final-term)

20%: SNA no.1~no.10 Hands-on Practices (each one counts 2%)

40%: Group Project Proposal (midterm 10%) and Presentation (final-term 30%)

20%: Ind. Tasks (SM User Report, SNA Research Paper Review, Learning Reflection two times; each one counts 5%)

Textbook & Reference

Borgatti, S. P., Everett, M. G., Johnson, J. C., & Agneessens, F. (2024). Analyzing social networks (3rd eds.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Borgatti, S. P., Everett, M. G., Johnson, J. C., & Agneessens, F. (2022). Analyzing social networks using R. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. https://sites.google.com/view/asnr-2022/home
- (Translated by Hsieh, P. H. in Mandarin)
  
  http://www.yehyeh.com.tw/bookchi.aspx?mode=dbview&sysid=00107654

Russell, M. A., & Klassen, M. (2019). Mining the social web (3rd ed.). Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly. https://github.com/mikhailklassen/Mining-the-Social-Web-3rd-Edition

Borgatti, S. P., Everett, M. G., & Johnson, J. C. (2018). Analyzing social networks (2nd eds.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. https://sites.google.com/site/analyzingsocialnetworks/ and https://study.sagepub.com/borgatti2e

Borgatti, S. P., Everett, M. G., & Johnson, J. C. (2013). Analyzing social networks (1st eds.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

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