New Fall 2013 Themester course
that lets you analyze your own Facebook data!
STAT S201 – NETWORKS 2.0:
Quantitative Literacy
Prerequisite: STAT-S 100 (or any
introductory statistics course) or permission of instructor
5:45-7:00pm Tuesday/Thursday PY
228
What do you think it would look
like if you put all your Facebook
friends on a big piece of paper
and drew lines connecting everyone
who was *your* friend with
everyone who was also your boyfriend’s
or your girlfriend's friends?
Then, what if, on this same
piece of paper, you connected everyone who was a
friend of your friends?
Where and how would you place them on this big piece
of paper? Are there distinct
groups of people who are friends with each other?
Are there people in your social
circles who have few friends in common with you?
In the field of network science
we call these kinds of relationships “networks.”
In this class you will use your
own Facebook data to learn how to answer
these and other interesting
questions about your social networks. For example: what
characteristics
("likes" in FB terms) are common among your friends in one group but
not another? which group
do you have more connections with? do all your friends
tend to "like" the same
things as you? as each other? are you similar to your friends’
friends or are you connected to
them simply because you have friends in common?
are your male friendships
connected differently than your female friendships?
Join us in Networks 2.0 as we
explore these and other network-related topics.
