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Capstone: Analyzing (Social) Network Data

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University of California San Diego

Capstone: Analyzing (Social) Network Data

78 ratings

Course 5 of 5 in the Specialization Object Oriented Java Programming: Data Structures and Beyond

In this capstone project we’ll combine all of the skills from all four specialization courses to do something really fun: analyze social networks! The opportunities for learning are practically endless in a social network. Who are the “influential” members of the network? What are the sub-communities in the network? Who is connected to whom, and by how many links? These are just some of the questions you can explore in this project. We will provide you with a real-world data set and some infrastructure for getting started, as well as some warm up tasks and basic project requirements, but then it’ll be up to you where you want to take the project. If you’re running short on ideas, we’ll have several suggested directions that can help get your creativity and imagination going. Finally, to integrate the skills you acquired in course 4 (and to show off your project!) you will be asked to create a video showcase of your final product.

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Capstone Implementation: Mini-project

Now that you've identified the two problems you want to solve, this week you'll work to solve the easier of the two. This week you are predominately on your own to work independently. To solve the problem, you'll likely create small datasets for testing, research existing solutions to related problems, implement a solution, test your solution, and analyze the algorithmic runtime of the solution. You can optionally write-up a report of your work for peer-review feedback.

Week 3 introduction1:41

Overview of report9:51

Meet the Instructors

Christine Alvarado
Associate Teaching Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Mia Minnes
Assistant Teaching Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Leo Porter
Assistant Teaching Professor
Computer Science and Engineering

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So, let's look at what we're going to do in Week 3.

So first off, you've already done a fair amount.

You've already started to get familiar with social network data.

You've already started working with some data sets, and

you've already done some sample problems with that.

And then, you've started to get a better feel for

what you're going to do in your capstone project.

You've identified an easy problem and a hard problem,

that you want to explore related to social networks.

What we're going to do in this week is solve that easy problem.

And what I want to do is narrow in on what's required of you and

what's optional for this week.

So what's required is for you to author a solution to your easy problem.

So, you're going to want to solve that easy problem and

you're going to want to analyze the runtime of that solution.

And you're going to want to make sure

that your solution's actually correct through testing.

So, those are the things you have to do this week.

The optional two pieces, first of all, to have some fun with your solution.

That is, find some different social network data, which may be more

interesting to explore in the context of the problem you're trying to solve.

And the other piece that's optional is, to submit a mini-project report,

associated with this, for review.

In fact, what we we're going to do with the next videos in this series is we're

going to dive into what is expected from those mini-project reports.

I do want to give you again, a larger context of where you're headed.

So, you're going to solve this easy problem in this week.

Next week,

you're going to make some progress on that hard question you're trying to solve.

In Week 5, you're going to finalize, and wrap up everything associated with

the project, and do a text write up of that project.

And in Week 6, you're going to present your work and

share your work with the other learners in this capstone project.

So in the next video, again,

we're going to dive into the details of what's required of you,

if you want to do the written write-up.

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