SI 614 Networks: Theory and Application

SI 614 Networks: Theory and Application

Resources

SI 614 home

cTools
All readings, assignments, etc. will be posted to the course ctools website

Schedule

Winter 2006:

Lectures will be
Mondays and Wednesdays
from 5:30 to 7:00 pm.
in 409 West Hall

Office hours:
Tuesday 5-6 pm and
Friday 11 am - 12 pm
in 3082 West Hall

Student projects

This year (2006) students selected diverse topics for their projects:

Community structure and centrality in a FaceBook ego-network
Exploratory analysis of del.icio.us user-tag-url tripartite networks
Analyzing the Social Patterns and Behaviors Associated with Blogrolls and Blog Comments (eventually published at ICWSM 2007)
Comparison of samples Flickr and Yahoo networks
Community structure in the network of countries and the international organizations they belong to
Modularity in protein-protein interaction networks
Analytical and numerical analysis of strong tie properties of small world networks
Affiliation networks of Information Schools and Computer Science departments
Affiliation networks of Sociology departments (eventually became part of a PhD thesis)
Machine translation using word adjacency networks
Models of linking patterns in Wikipedia based on content similarity
Optimizing robustness and structural properties of power grid networks
Relating library collections through metadata
Network Analysis of the Claypool Persimmon Orchard Breeding Data
University of Michigan Layer 1 physical internet network analysis

The most highly connected nodes in a del.icio.us tagging network.