Research in Social Computing

Introduction to social computing – goals, challenges, and recent research; social computing platforms – blogging, social networking, professional social computing platforms; collecting social computing data – Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), crawling, online surveys, benchmarks; research methods in social computing – descriptive methods, predictive methods, geospatial methods; qualitative research methods for social computing – focused groups, interviews, semiotics, opinion mining; spatial analysis methods – spatial interpolation, spatial regression, spatial visualization; temporal analysis methods – temporal data representation, analyzing time series data, prediction and grouping in temporal data; network-science based methods – graphs, nodes, edges, centrality measures, community detection.