Place: Room 108, Old Building, IIS, AS
Time: 9:00-12:00 Thurs
Chair: Dr. M. K. Shan
Outline: In this course, the following topics will be presented and discussed: social media analysis,
blogs and friendship network analysis, email and messaging analytics, influence spreading and
viral marketing, social reputation and trust, user profiling and recommendation systems, social
media searches, expertise and authority discovery, community identification, link prediction,
collaborative data analysis, and data mining with social factors.
Textbook: Social Network Data Analytics, Charu C. Aggarwal (Ed.), Springer 2011
Reference: Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, J. Han, M. Kamber, and J. Pei, 3rd edition,
Morgan Kaufmann, 2011.
Introduction to Data Mining, P.N. Tan, M. Steinbach, and V. Kumar, Addison Wesley, 2006.
TA: TBA
Office hours: by appointment
Grades: Midterm exam 40%. Final project 60%

Week
Date
Topics/Brief Description
Lecturers
1
2015/09/17
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Data Mining
Yi-Shin Chen
2
2015/09/24
Frequent Pattern Mining I
Man-Kwan Shan
3
2015/10/01
Frequent Pattern Mining II, Clustering I
Man-Kwan Shan
4
2015/10/08
Clustering II
Man-Kwan Shan
5
2015/10/15

Classification Techniques I
Kuo-Wei Hsu
6
2015/10/22
Classification Techniques II
Kuo-Wei Hsu
7
2015/10/29
Midterm Exam

8
2015/11/05
Chapter 2: Statistical Properties of Social Networks
Cheng-Te LI
9
2015/11/12
Chapter 4 Community Discovery in Social Networks: Applications, Methods and Emerging Trends
Cheng-Te LI
10
2015/11/19
Chapter 5 Node Classification in Social Networks
Cheng-Te LI
11
2015/11/26
Chapter 6 Evolution in Social Networks: A Survey
Cheng-Te LI
12
2015/12/03
Chapter 9 A Survey of Link Prediction
De-Nian Yang
13
2015/12/10
Chapter 10 Privacy in Social Networks: A Survey
De-Nian Yang
14
2015/12/17
Chapter 13 Text Mining in Social Networks
De-Nian Yang
15
2015/12/24
Proposal Presentation
Yi-Shin Chen
16
2015/12/31
Chapter 7 A Survey of Models and Algorithms for Social Influence Analysis
Yi-Shin Chen
17
2016/01/07
Chapter 16 An Overview of Social Tagging.
Yi-Shin Chen
18
2016/01/14
Final Project
Yi-Shin Chen