HarambeeNet

Social Networks in Edcucation

Seeking to build the community necessary to establish an alternative introduction to computing centered around the science of networks.

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Deetta Brooke is now a member of HarambeeNet
15 hours ago
Sharmina Ahmed is now a member of HarambeeNet
August 25, 2009
PHP script for parsing the playcount (and other info) from an iTunes XML file. iTunes XML PHP Parser
August 4, 2009
Design, iteration 1 Classes Song, with fields Title, Artist, Genre, PlayCount ArrayList (of Songs) ArrayList for artists & genres; fields are Title, PlayCount, TotalPlayCount GUI classes for each kind of list Class for reading XML Driver Metrics o…
August 3, 2009
Hi group members, We need to get organized to complete our assignment. Personally, I want to use it as the first program in NCSU's CSC 216 this fall. In practical terms, the first assignment needs to be ready before classes start, which happens on…
July 25, 2009
Notes from Jian-Wei Gan and Chris Carlon's talk on Facetrust - a system that "leverages online social networks to provide lightweight, flexible credentials that enable users to assess the credibility of others and their assertions."
July 22, 2009
Richard Lucic added a discussion
Audio Boo is an iPhone app that allows an iPhone user to record a Boo (audio message up to 5 min.), add a photo, and GPS coordinates. The message is then automatically uploaded to Audio Boo's servers. You can follow individuals just as in Twitter, o…
July 22, 2009
Billboard Chart API call specifications are found at: http://developer.billboard.com/docs/The_Chart_Service/Resources/Chart_Spec And an example Billboard API call response: http://developer.billboard.com/docs/API_Calls
July 22, 2009
Jonathan P Mathew and Jon Zelner joined HarambeeNet
July 21, 2009
Typical iTunes XML file content:
July 21, 2009
July 21, 2009
Paper is here: Demography 2008 Goodreau.pdf
July 21, 2009
Take a look at this paper: Goodreau, S, Kitts, J, Morris, M. (2008). "Birds of a feather, or friend of a friend? Using exponential random graph models to investigate adolescent social networks." Demography 46(1) pp.103-125
July 21, 2009
iTunes Celebrity Playlists (database includes 576 celebrities), Mike Myers' example:
July 21, 2009
Jeff F. says that Genre's have not proved of value due to their randomness.
July 21, 2009
Turadg Aleahmad added a blog post
[Full plans available in our shared doc: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dfwn5m7p_20cgzmt2dz ] We're all Twitter users and we've noticed that spam is becoming a bigger and bigger problem on Twitter. We've observed certain patterns of behavior on Tw…
July 21, 2009

Members

  • Deetta Brooke
  • Dan Katz
  • George Rouskas
  • MariaD
  • Lada Adamic
  • Ed Gehringer
  • Zach Dodds
  • Jon Zelner
  • Monica
  • Turadg Aleahmad
  • Jen Thomas
  • Moira Burke
  • Jim Caristi
  • Sarita Yardi
  • Richard Lucic
  • Susanne Hambrusch

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Jeff Forbes

Discussion Materials 8 Replies

Started by Jeff Forbes. Last reply by Jeff Forbes Jul. 22, 2009.

Richard Lucic

Audio Boo - Will it be the next Twitter?

Started by Richard Lucic Jul. 22, 2009.

 

Blog Posts

Turadg Aleahmad

Twitter spammer detection

[Full plans available in our shared doc ]

Groups members

Sarita Yardi
Lada Adamic
Moira Burke
Turadg Aleahmad


We're all Twitter users and we've noticed that spam is becoming a bigger and bigger problem on Twitter. We've observed certain patterns of behavior on Twitter--spambots follow trending hashtags as they become popular, and spam accounts appear to be distributed throughout the network so that they c… Continue

Posted by Turadg Aleahmad on July 21, 2009 at 2:00pm

Ed Gehringer

Module on playlist similarity

Group members
George Rouskas
Ed Gehringer
Richard Lucic
Dan Katz

Goals
Practice with file I/O
Experience screenscraping (Billboard Top 100?)
Teach simple data structures (e.g., array lists).
Teach sorting
Teach module interfaces
Understand how networks can be built from similarities

Components of the assignment
Read in playlists in the format used by iTunes and put them into an array list, in CSV format.
Simultaneously, create a list of artists represented, with frequenc… Continue

Posted by Ed Gehringer on July 21, 2009 at 1:28pm — 7 Comments

Jim Caristi

Group 2: Mathematics situated in networks

Group 2 members: Jim Caristi and Maria Droujkova

Primary question (research level)
What are some math social objects in the networks you use, and how do they "bridge" to math networks (theories/models/simulations)
Secondary questions:
- Find a network element (people and connections) related to a particular social object (quilt pattern, recipe, fanfic)
- Identify a bridge from a network social object to a math/CS object (e.g. a piece of theory, a definition, a concept, a piece of code, a simula… Continue

Posted by Jim Caristi on July 21, 2009 at 1:00pm — 3 Comments

Ed Carr

Module for Visualization of Networks

In this module the student will:

Develop skills necessary to retrieve data from web pages and other data bases.
Screen Scraping

Python tutorial:

Become familiar with the visualization tool igraph

Analysis of the network/graph… Continue

Posted by Ed Carr on July 21, 2009 at 1:00pm — 3 Comments

Jim Caristi

Cooking

Cooking

Mathematical artifacts:
proportion
timelines
conversions
size: area, volume, weight, density -- containers
optimization
combinatorics (how many pairings)
economy of food
biochemistry of cooking

Measurement versus proportion in recipe style

Menu preparation: include appetizer, salad/soup, entree, vegetable, starch, dessert that are associated "appropriately"

Recipe generation:
- random based on networks of food pairings;
- perturbations of known recipes
-- spice
-- salt
-- fats
-- die… Continue

Posted by Jim Caristi on July 21, 2009 at 1:00pm

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