Schedule

Date	Topic	Reading	Slides	Presenter
08/20	Overview	-	slides	Aron
08/22	Reading research	12 3	slides	Aron
08/27	Problem Overview I	A Few Useful Things to Know about Machine Learning by Pedro Domingos Machine Learning by Tom Dietterich	slides	Aron
08/29	Problem Overview II	Chapter 1 from Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning about a Highly Connected World	slides	Aron
09/03	Sentiment Classification I	Thumbs up? Sentiment Classification using Machine Learning Techniques	slides	Tian Tang
09/05	Sentiment Classification II	How Opinions are Received by Online Communities: A Case Study on Amazon.com Helpfulness Votes	-	Matthew Heston
09/10	Politics I	From Tweets to Polls: Linking Text Sentiment to Public Opinion Time Series	-	Hao Gao
09/12	Politics II	I Wanted to Predict Elections with Twitter and all I got was this Lousy Paper	-	Qingyuan Wen
09/17	Health I	You Are What You Tweet: Analyzing Twitter for Public Health	-	Thibault Lasserre
09/19	Health II	Modeling Spread of Disease from Social Interactions	-	Ruoyo Wang
09/24	Marketing I	Maximizing the Spread of Influence through a Social Network	-	Junze Han
09/26	Marketing II	The Dynamics of Viral Marketing	-	Tonghe Zhan
10/01	Economics I	Twitter mood predicts the stock market	-	Lola Priego Porcuna
10/03	Economics II (or Marketing III)	Identifying Influential and Susceptible Members of Social Networks	-	Bavan Prashant
10/08	Project Updates	-
10/10	Project Updates	-
10/15	Digital Humanitarianism I	Natural Language Processing to the Rescue?: Extracting “Situational Awareness” Tweets During Mass Emergency	-	Zhang Haitian
10/17	Digital Humanitarianism II	Extracting Information Nuggets from Disaster- Related Messages in Social Media	-	Elise Thrasher
10/22	Crime I	Common Sense Reasoning for Detection, Prevention, and Mitigation of Cyberbullying	-	Ji Qi
10/24	Crime II	On the Impact of Sentiment and Emotion Based Features in Detecting Online Sexual Predators	-	Chuang Xie
10/29	Personality Classification I	Personality and Patterns of Facebook Usage	slides	Sean Wallace
10/31	Personality Classification II	Lexical Predictors Of Personality Type	-	Qi Zhan
11/05	Geolocation I	A latent variable model for geographic lexical variation	-	Virgile Landeiro Dos Reis
11/07	Geolocation II	Inferring the Origin Locations of Tweets with Quantitative Confidence	-	An Shi
11/12	Gradient Descent, Linear models	-
11/14	Project Tips	-
11/19	Presentations	-
11/21	Presentations	-
11/26	Submit final project	-