Assignment_Overview

**Homework Overview** Your grade in this class will consist of 4 homeworks, 4 dogfoods, a wiki assignment, and a project. The point breakdown is as follows: EC = Extra Credit  Assignments are due electronically **at noon** on the day they're due. Please email your homework assignments to mse237@gmail.com  as text, pdf, doc, or docx using the following convention "FirstName_LastName_AssignmentNumber": Subject: "Jeremy_Carr_HW1" OR "Jeremy_Carr_DF3" Filename: Jeremy_Carr_HW1 No hard copy is necessary for any of the homework assignments.
 * **Homework Scoring** ||  ||
 * Wiki || 7 ||
 * Class Participation || EC ||
 * HW1- Analytics || 5 ||
 * HW2- Recommendations (Delicious) || 10 ||
 * HW3- Bit.ly || 10 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">HW4- Discovery (Twitter) || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">DF1- Yourversion || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">DF2- GoogleWave || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">DF3- Quora || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">DF4- Groupon || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">P1- Initial Idea || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">P2- Project URL || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">P3- Final Specs || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">P4- Status Report || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">P5- Initial Results || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">P6- Final Results || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">15 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">P7- Presentation (by invitation) || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">EC ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Total || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">100 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Project: Teams of 4-5 students tackle interesting problems in the social data space. The project will span the entire term, culminating in class presentations from select groups.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Homework: The assignments will be graded according to the deliverables explained on each assignment page. The more time consuming ones are weighted more heavily than the quick ones. The homework deliberately spans a wide spectrum of required times and skill sets. You can see that making sense of web analytics is very different from designing an algorithm for discovering Twitter users to follow, or getting a simple content recommender system to work on Delicious.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dogfood: One goal of the course is to be able to think creatively and develop meaningful insights about the social data landscape. Firsthand experience with social media tools over the course of the term will provide a foundation for students to stand on and begin exploring this world. Since the landscape is changing at an incredible pace and there are a wealth of services in the wild, we will explore several over the currently most exciting services.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Participation: Contributions during class and Class material from each session needs to be summarized and improved upon by a group of students to serve as a continuous resource. You must form a group and sign up to write a wiki page. Your group is responsible for creating the initial wiki page for the class that week and getting it up within 3 days. The page will be evaluated at 5pm 3 days after class. At that stage, the page must clearly emphasize the key learnings of the class, why they are relevant, and link to relevant materials elsewhere. Any time after that, every student is invited to improve the pages as the course develops with useful and relevant links that connect concepts together. You can look at past wikis ( <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">[|2007] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">[|2008] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">) to get an idea of what is expected.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In agreement with instructor, some of the above can be replaced by by contributions such as sharing some of your insights on <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">[|facebook.com/socialdatarevolution] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">, commenting on, and helping with the <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">[|SocialDataRevolution.com] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> site.
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