Assignments

Turn in all assignments through the file upload on Canvas unless otherwise instructed.

Network Basics - 6/3

  • Homework: Network Basics: worksheet
  • Exercise: Please post a message on the "Week 1: Introductions" topic on the Canvas discussion board.
Visualization - 6/10
  • Homework: Network Visualization: personal network visualization
  • Exercise: The gephi tutorial has you work with the Les Mis dataset from their website. Follow along with them as you do the tutorial. Save your final visualization and post it to the "Les Mis" area of the Canvas discussion board with a description of the visualization and what you think about it. You are welcome to make changes beyond what was presented in the tutorial. Please comment on at least one other person's visualization.
Tie Strength - 6/17
  • Homework: Tie Strength: webcam analysis
  • Exercises - Lots of discussion for this topic!
    • In lecture, I asked you to list some things that would measure tie strength. On the discussion board for Tie Strength: Measures, please list the measures with your reasons for each. Then, reply to at least three other students' posts. Note that we won't get all of this right here. Don't be shy about disagreeing (but offer support for your argument and an alternative, if possible).
    • On the discussion board, please answer as requested in the topic for Tie Strength: Discussion of Gilbert&Karahalios Paper. Post at least three replies to other students' comments. I am particulatly interested in the quality of your analysis in this discussion.
Trust - 6/24
  • (no homework for this topic)
  • Exercises

    We have a lot of discussion on this topic. For the discussion board topics, I have started us with some initial thoughts, but I'd really like a discussion there. I'm more interested in you showing good analysis and depth of thought than sticking to exactly what I asked in the beginning.

    What we do with people we trust In the lecture, I ask you to note things you will do with people you trust. Take your ideas and enter them in this google doc.

    Then, on the discussion board thread for Trust: What we do with people we trust, enter at least one response to the original questions and reply to one other student's post.

    Investment Game In the lecture and book, I talk about the investment game. Recall that you have $10. You can keep any amount and invest any part of it with a stranger. The stranger will receive 3 times your investment (e.g. if you invest $5, the stranger gets $15). That stranger chooses how much to return to you from that total. He can return nothing, just your original investment, double your investment - anything. How much do you invest? And, if you were the stranger receiving the money, how much would you return?

    Enter your answers here.

    Then, on the discussion board thread for Trust: Investment Game, enter at least one response to the original questions and reply to one other student's post.

    Propensity to Trust and Trustworthiness Survey Take the survey at the end of chapter 6 and score yourself as described there. Enter your scores in this spreadsheet.

    Then, on the discussion board thread for Trust: Propensity to Trust Survey, enter at least one response to the original questions and reply to one other student's post.

Content Analysis - 7/10
  • Homework: Content Analysis- Enron email network
  • Exercise

    Read the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice. Build a social network of the characters. You must decide:

    • Who becomes a node in the graph. Is it anyone mentioned? Just major characters? People who appear but not people who are only mentioned? Come up with a criteria to apply.
    • What constitutes an edge. Is it people who know one another? People who know of one another? Are the edges directed or undirected?
    Create your network. Label your edges (e.g. sisters may have an edge labeled "sister" connceting them) to indicate the type of relationship. Enter this data in Gephi.

    To do this in Gephi, create a new project. Then go to the data laboratory. At the top, enter all your nodes using the "Add Node" button. Then, enter all the edges using the Add Edge button. To label the edges, click on the "Edges" tab in the top bar of the data laboratory. There is a column called "Label". Double click in that column to label a relationship. Note that if you are using a directed graph and there is a mutual relationship (e.g. A knows B and B knows A), you need to enter the edge twice - once for A to B and again for B to A.

    Create a visualization. Then, post your visualization image and a description of your criteria to the discussion board. Comment on any difficulties you had in making your decisions. Then comment on at least two other posts. These must be substantial comments. Look to see if people were consistent in their choices and applications of the criteria.

Propagation - 7/17

Community Maintained Resources - 7/24

  • Homework: Geocaching
  • Exercises - Discuss your participation in community maintained resources in the thread on the discussion board

Privacy - 7/31

  • (no homework for this topic)
  • Exercises
    • Exercise 1: Choose one of the social media sites on this spreadsheet or select a new one. Mark your choice immediately by entering your name in the cell next to it, so you don't do the work only to find you have duplicated someone else. Read the privacy policy of the site you choose and then fill in the columns regarding the personal information the site collects. Mark a 1 for yes and a 0 for no.

      In class exercise on privacy spreadsheet

Final Project

Intermediate Deadlines

(Due by 11:59pm on the date listed)

  • July 11 - Sample Coding Complete
  • July 18 - Coding Complete
  • July 18 - Team Selected
  • July 25 - Team Activity Log 1
  • August 3 - Team Analysis Complete
  • August 17 - Final Document