Introduction to Web Science

Winter Term 2017 / 2018

News

• No tutorial on Feb 2. Assignment 11 will be explained on Feb 9.

Assignments 

Schedule

Study Materials

• Course materials for this introductory course to Web Science can be found at the Wikiversity page. 
• Tutorial Zero Slides : here! 
• ipython notebook guide
• latex notations in ipython
• Slides for the lecture on Dynamic Web Content with Python on 14.11.2017.
• Slides for Crawler Development with Python on 17.11.2017
• Notes for log-log plots.
• Slides for Meme Spreading 
• Slides for Herding Behaviour
• Online Advertisement videos:
  1. Introduction to Online Advertisement
  2. Metrics for Online Advertisement
  3. Factors impact on Advertisement Campaigns
  4. Understanding Problems with Click Fraud.
  5. Optional: Interesting read: "Tracing the Trackers", Yu et. al.
     In: Proc. of WWW 2016 ("of the top 200 news sites, as ranked by Alexa, contain at least one tracker, and at least 50% of them contain at least 11").
• Slides for lecture on Socio Economic Aspects of the Web on 19.12.2017

Further Material

• Material last year: https://west.uni-koblenz.de/de/studying/courses/ws1617/introduction-to-web-science
• Hal Berghel. Net Neutrality Reloaded. In: IEEE Computer, 2017, pp. 68-72. (behind IEEE paywall, accessible within university or using VPN)

Important Information

Examination 

In order to obtain ECTS-Credits you need to both gain admission to the exam and you need to pass the exam. The exam is passed if you obtain a score of at least 50% in it. 

The Final Examination will be held on February 19 (Monday), 2018 from 10:00 am onwards at E-011
The 2nd Examination: April 27, 2018 (Friday), from 12:00 pm onwards at M-001.

Assignments

You are expected to hand in all the assignments in due time, every week on Wednesday at 11:00 am. The assignments must be done by everyone in the group.  The assignments should be handed in a pdf format with all valid source code and graphs if necessary. Assignments will be treated incomplete if any part of the solution is missing. Students need to accomplish at least 60% of the assignments in order to attend the final exam. Plagiarism is strictly forbidden and will result in disqualification from the final exam, of both sides of the plagiarism (copying and being copied). Students are also expected to explain some of the assignments.

SVN

The SVN repository to submit your assignments  is : https://svn.uni-koblenz.de/westteaching/webscience-1718/GROUPNAME
Replace GROUPNAME with your group name in lower case letters. Please remember to have your assignments in different folders under "solutions" .

Last Year Students 

Students who failed to secure passing grades last year can directly appear for the examinations this year. However, it is advisable to participate in the course and the tutorials. 

Team Formation

For assignments, you have to make a group of 2-3 to be in a team. To create your teams, you can click here. 
 

Organizational Information

Lecturers

Prof. Dr. Steffen Staab

• Founder

Korok Sengupta

• koroksengupta@uni-koblenz.de
• Scientific Employee
• B 104
• +49 261 287-2719

Jun Sun

• Alumnus

Tara Morovatdar

• tmorovatdar@uni-koblenz.de
• Student Assistant