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Postgraduate Course: Web and Social Network Analytics (CMSE11427)

Course Outline
SchoolBusiness School CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThis course deals with the various aspects that are related to analysing web data. First of all, the analysis of a web page is covered. Next, the Internet will be approached as a graph, where various analyses regarding the importance, visibility and role of each node within the net. Finally, various methodologies for handling data stemming from ecommerce such as purchase data are covered in light of frequent item set analysis (market basket analysis), and recommender systems.
Course description Outline Content:
1. Web analytics
2. The web as a graph
3. Social networks
4. Unsupervised techniques

Student Learning Experience:
Weekly lectures and hands-on programming exercises in Python which enables students to implement the methodologies covered in class.

Project will consist of students using all skills that they acquired to analyse a set of datasets describing a real-world online business. Students will need to show proficiency in the techniques they learned and an ability to communicate their findings in non-technical terms.

Tutorial/seminar hours represent the minimum total live hours - online or in-person - a student can expect to receive on this course. These hours may be delivered in tutorial/seminar, lecture, workshop or other interactive whole class or small group format. These live hours may be supplemented by pre-recorded lecture material for students to engage with asynchronously.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites Students MUST also take: Predictive Analytics and Modelling of Data (CMSE11428)
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements For MSc Business Analytics students, or by permission of course organiser. Please contact the course secretary.
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2021/22, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  None
Course Start Block 3 (Sem 2)
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 10, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 88 )
Additional Information (Learning and Teaching) Seminar/Tutorial hrs are the min total live hrs, online or in-person, students can expect to receive
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) 100% coursework (individual) - assesses all course Learning Outcomes
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Analyse a company's website and web presence
  2. Make recommendations towards improving the visibility of a company on the web
  3. Use unsupervised learning techniques for modelling customer and product recommendations
Reading List
Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability and Science of Customer Centricity, Avinash Kaushik
Social Network Data Analytics, Charu C. Aggarwal
Introduction to Information Retrieval, Christopher D. Manning,Prabhakar Raghavan,Hinrich Schütze

Resource List:
https://eu01.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/leganto/public/44UOE_INST/lists/26181400300002466?auth=SAML
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills After completing this course, students should be able to:
A. Knowledge and Understanding:
1. show a thorough understanding of the landscape of web analytics both from a corporate, as well as a technical perspective
2. show a thorough understanding of the web both from a web analytics, as well as a graph perspective
3. analyse nodes in a social network towards their importance and influence
4. demonstrate a thorough understanding of market basket and recommender system techniques

B. Practice: applied knowledge, skills and understanding:
1. construct a recommender system and market basket analysis out of purchase data
2. provide a comprehensive overview of the various corporate applications of social network analysis
3. show a thorough understanding of the various techniques used in a business environment to support web analytics

C. Communication, ICT and numeracy skills:
1. collect data from websites
2. construct social network models in Python
3. analyse website and social network data with Python

D. Generic Cognitive Skills:
1. demonstrate report writing skills;
2. demonstrate presentation skills;
3. demonstrate business understanding and problem-solving skills;
4. demonstrate awareness of group dynamics.
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Contacts
Course organiserDr Zexun Chen
Tel: (0131 6)50 8074
Email: Zexun.Chen@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Emily Davis
Tel: (0131 6)51 7112
Email: Emily.Davis@ed.ac.uk
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