This is the repository for L&S - 88: Web Data Visualization
This project is maintained by yasmina85
Fall 2017
CCN: 46820
Instructor: Yasmin AlNoamany
Email: yasminal@berkeley.edu
Lecture: Tuesdays 12:00-2:00 pm, Cory 105
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 2:00-3:00 pm, Cory 105
The course introduces students to Web science with a focus on how the Web works, types of Web data, and how to generate effective visualizations for Web data (e.g., social networks). The course covers basic principles and tools for understanding and visualizing Web data. It focuses heavily on project work that aims to give students hands-on experience with handling Web data.
Because Web science is interdisciplinary by nature, this course connects students to different disciplines such as social science, computer science, and information science. At the end of the course, students should be able to apply Web mining techniques on and draw insights from real-world data.
We will follow the default grade scale at UCB. All grades will be posted on bCourses.
Late assignments lose 1 points for every 24 hours they are late. Students should contact the instructor if they have an excuse. No assignment will be accepted more than 7 days late.
Attendance is required for class participation and discussion. Contact instructor prior to the class if you have a reason for the absence.
Participation will in the form of the discussion in the class and/or questions or comments on required readings of the previous week. There will be a discussion forum for each week readings on bCourses. Students are supposed to submit their comments/questions on readings as a reply to the discussion.
We encourage collaboration and working in teams. However, homework assignments should be completed independently. You can discuss assignments with others with mentioning that at the bottom of your assignment. We will be following the EECS departmental policy on Academic Honesty, so be sure you are familiar with it.
If you have questions, first check the course Web site. Feel free to ask in the class, or post your question on bCourses. There will be office hours on Tuesdays, from 3:00-4:00 pm. If students can not make it to the office hours, they can schedule an appointment by email: yasminal@berkeley.edu.
If you experience a disability which will impact your ability to access any aspect of the class, please contact me and check out the university policy of accommodating special needs from here: http://www.dsp.berkeley.edu/accommodationpolicy