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=Data Mining and Electronic Business= MS&E 237, Spring 2010, 3 units Stanford University Andreas Weigend Time: Tuesday and Thursday, 4:15pm - 5:30pm L[|ocation: 200-002] (History corner basement) ||> media type="custom" key="5936365" ||
 * =The Social Data Revolution:=

** The amount of data generated by people doubles roughly every 1.5 years. The plummeting of costs of gathering, storing, and indexing data is having a tremendous impact on the expectations of individuals as they create and share information about themselves and about their relationships with others, both in a C2W context (consumer-to-world, e.g., Twitter) and a C2C context (e.g., Facebook). What are the new data sources, how can they be used to create value for individuals, business, and ultimately society? **

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Course Schedule

 * **Class** || **Date** || **Day** || **Guests** || **Content** || **Deliverables** ||
 * 1 || 3/30/2010 || T || - || Overview ||  ||
 * 2 || 4/1/2010 || R || - || Data ||  ||
 * 3 || 4/6/2010 || T || Eugene Kim, Haway Fung, Wikimedia, Christian Wiklund, Skout || Wikimedia, Skout ||  ||
 * 4 || 4/8/2010 || R || - || Recommender Systems || P0-Team Formed, HW1-Analytics ||
 * 5 || 4/13/2010 || T || Dan Olsen, YourVersion || Content Discovery || DF1-YourVersion ||
 * 6 || 4/15/2010 || R || Lars Backstrom, Facebook (PYMK) || People Discovery || HW2-Delicious ||
 * 7 || 4/20/2010 || T || Todd Levy, bit.ly || Real-Time || P1-Initial Idea ||
 * 8 || 4/22/2010 || R || Vipul Prakash, Rishab Ghosh, Topsy || Relevance, Metrics || HW3-Bit.ly ||
 * 9 || 4/27/2010 || T || Adam Josephs, Brad Rubenstein, Celerity || Mobile || P2-Project Page ||
 * 10 || 4/29/2010 || R || Mark Torrance, Rocket Fuel; Ted Shelton, Open-First || Online and mobile advertising || HW4-Twitter ||
 * 11 || 5/4/2010 || T || Andrew Chen || Incentives, Game Dynamics || P3-Final Specs ||
 * 12 || 5/6/2010 || R || Ashwin Kumar, Blippy || Open Data || DF2-Blippy ||
 * 13 || 5/11/2010 || T || Gary Bolles, Xigi || The Individual: Identity, Privacy || P4-Status Report ||
 * 14 || 5/13/2010 || R || - || Relationships, The Social Graph || DF3-Quora ||
 * 15 || 5/18/2010 || T || - || The Collective / Community || P5-Initial Results ||
 * 16 || 5/20/2010 || R || Esther Dyson || Self tracking, Health || DF4-Groupon ||
 * 17 || 5/25/2010 || T || Peter Hirshberg || Ambient Data, Smart Cities || P6-Final Results ||
 * 18 || 5/27/2010 || R || VC Panel (Accel Partners, Alloy Ventures, Sparring Partners) || Business opps from the SDR || P7-Presentation (Part 1) ||
 * 19 || 6/1/2010 || T || Auren Hoffman, Rapleaf || Social Network Intelligence || P7-Presentation (Part 2) ||

Teaching Team
The teaching team has one single email address that is monitored by them: mse237@gmail.com. This email is not monitored by the instructor, but by the members of the teaching team.
 * Andreas Weigend. Try contacting me by email first (aweigend@stanford.edu), and if you think you should have received a response but didn’t, then text or call me, (650) 906-5906. I live in San Francisco, and am on campus two days a week.
 * Jeremy Carr (jpcarr@stanford.edu), MS&E Master's student.
 * Muhammad Aldawood (aldawood@stanford.edu), MS&E PhD student.

Directions to the class
For guests, the following information might be useful: If you come by car, a convenient parking area is the street parking (you need to pay until 4pm) in front of the Cantor Center for the Visual Arts (328 Lomita Drive, Stanford CA 94305). After parking, walk for a few minutes (continuing in the same direction) towards the central part of campus. The first real street you will reach (not counting the street at the museum) is called Serra Mall. There is a [|searchable campus map] (keywords: History Corner). If you have problems finding it, any student on campus should be happy to help you with directions.
 * If you want to go to the classroom directly, turn left on Serra Mall. The class is in the leftmost corner of the Quad, Building 200 ("History Corner"), basement room 002 (Stanford CA 94305).
 * And if you want to grab a bite or a cup of coffee, turn right on Serra Mall and cross the street to get to Bytes Cafe, located at the ground floor of David Packard Electrical Engineering.

Other Resources
[|socialdatarevolution.com] [|weigend.com]