TU Graz: Course: 707.000 Web Science and Web Technology: Lecture 7: Link Analysis and Search

What are ways of searching in graphs? In this class, we will discuss basics of link analysis, including Google's PageRank algorithm as an example. Readings: The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web, L. Page and S. Brin and R. Motwani and T. Winograd (1998) Stanford Tecnical Report

TU Graz: Course: 707.000 Web Science and Web Technology: Lecture 8: Web Technologies 1

This class focuses on a selected subset of web technologies that are of interest to the topics of this course. Readings: Chapter 5 "Representational State Transfer (REST)", in "Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architecture", Roy Fielding, Dissertation, University of California Irvine, 2000 Optional: Chapter "Representational State Transfer (REST)" in "Pro PHP XML and Web Services", R. Richards 633--672, 2006

TU Graz: Course: 707.000 Web Science and Web Technology: Lecture 10: Text Mining

This class introduces basics of web mining and information retrieval including, for example, an introduction to the Vector Space Model and Text Mining. Guest Lecturer: Dr. Michael Granitzer Optional: Modeling the Internet and the Web: Probabilistic Methods and Algorithms, Pierre Baldi, Paolo Frasconi, Padhraic Smyth, Wiley, 2003 (Chapter 4, Text Analysis)

Review: Social Media and Abstract Nouns

The revision slides for our Social Media course, contains major lessons learned throughout the course, and an example exam question (on trust).

On social networks and game theory, some research problems

Seminar given as part of social networking course, to give a brief overview of some applied examples game theory used in social network simulation

Contemporary Social Movements and the Web

Social Movements are decentralising in the modern world. Web 2.0 has driven latency structures in social movements, and made activism more personal than ever before, but it has also introduced the concept of slacktivism. Micro-Macro relationships are becoming important theoretical frameworks for Social Movement research on the Web - has the Global Justice Movement of 1999 become Global Justice Networks in 2013?

Foundation Year RTS Part 3 Portfolio Template Summary: Science and Engineering 2012-13

Part 3 Routes to Success summary of the portfolio template on one A4 page

Foundation Year RTS3 Portfolio Template: Science and Engineering 2012-13

Part 3 Routes to Success Portfolio template on five A4 page

Web Science and Data Analytics Course

Resources from the Singapore Summer School 2014 hosted by NUS. ws-summerschool.comp.nus.edu.sg