Blog Data Analysis

Coordinators: Graham Cormode , Haym Hirsh and S. Muthukrishnan .  Contact: S. (Muthu) Muthukrishnan. x2379, Core 319. muthu@cs.rutgers.edu.
Meeting time: Thursday 11.30 AM -- 1  PM. Place:  Core B.

• Check out WWE06 , WWE05 and WWE04 . Also links hp , skiena ,
  
• Everyone who attends needs to blog.
  
• Reading list:
  
• Tracking Information Epidemics in Blogspace , Eytan Adar and Lada A. Adamic.
• Mapping the Blogospere in America , Alex Halavais  
  
• GIS and the Blogosphere , Matt Hurst
• Discovering Important Bloggers Based on a Blog Thread Analysis , Shinsuke Nakajima
• Learning Contextualised Weblog Topics , Paolo Avesani
• A Matter of Life or Death: Modeling Blog Mortality
• Tracking Information Diffusion through Blogspace
  
• A short walk in Blogistan, Cohen and Krishnamurthy.
  

List of TCS/Algorithms bloggers   AlgorithmsBloggers  

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Date	Topic	Notes.
Feb 09	Intro: Overview of blog world and homework 1.
Feb 16	Cancelled.
Feb 23	Graham Cormode The EigenRumor Algorithm for Ranking Blogs, Ko Fujimura	Feb 20: President's day.
Mar 02	Irina Rozenbaum on GIS and the Blogosphere
Mar 09	No talk
Mar 16	SPRING RECESS (Mar 11--19)
Mar 23	Yihua Wu Discovering Important Bloggers Based on a Blog Thread Analysis
Mar 30	Pavel Kuksa Tracking Information Epidemics in Blogspace
Apr 06	Suhrid Balakrishnan Tracking Information Diffusion through Blogspace	Apr 3--7, ICDE, Atlanta.
Apr 13	Smriti Bhagat
Apr 20		Apr 20-22 at SDM, MD.
Apr 27		Last day of classes (Last day of classes is May 1)
May 04
May 11