Winter Term 2020 / 2021

News

• Oct 26, 2020: Please watch the Organisational Introduction, it contains detailed information on the course format. Note that all further screencasts will be published in OLAT.
• Oct 29, 2020: We changed the maximal number of students allowed in a group to 4 and added a deadline to constructed groups (Deadline: 15th November, 2020).
• Nov 4, 2020: We will use Microsoft Teams for our Q&A session. Please make sure, that you can access our meeting room beforehand. We will use the following room: Teams Meeting Room
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Study Material

• Flipped Classroom Content on: Wikiversity
• Jupyter Notebook Tips and Tricks

Important Information

Format

This course is offered as an online course. New lectures (slides and screencasts) are published every week (Wednesday). Please register of the coure in OLAT in order to receive notifications of new material. Video lectures are published at Panopto.

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.

Assignments

We will publish 10 assignment sheets. Students should team up in groups of 1-4 and must reach 60% of the points. We will publish a video solution of each assignment wednesdays. Please join a group in TEAMS! TEAMS link, by 15th November, 2020 24:00 CEST.

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 in-complete if any part of the solution is missing. Students need to accomplish at least 60% of the total scores in 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).

SVN

The SVN repository to submit your assignments is: https://svn.uni-koblenz.de/westteaching/webscience-2021/GROUPNAME
Replace GROUPNAME with your group name in lower case letters. ( Example: https://svn.uni-koblenz.de/westteaching/webscience-2021/alpha )
Please remember to have your assignments in different folders under "solutions".

Last Year Students

Students who previously failed the exam of "Introduction to Web Science" can directly appear for the examination this semester (actually they are obliged to participate in the exam). However, it is advisable to participate in the course and the tutorials.
Students who have mastered assignments such that they gained admission to participate in last year's exam, but did not register for last year's exam, have to earn admission anew.

Schedule

• The course will be held online.
• There will be Q&A session at 11:00 CEST, mondays.
• The deadline of each assignment will be 24:00 CEST, tuesdays.
• We will publish news lecture unit, new assignment, and tutorial video each wednesday.

The detail information about the course units as follows:

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Week	Date	Topic
1	26-Octv-2020	Organisational Introduction
1	04-Nov-2020	Introductory Session
2	11-Nov-2020	Ethernet
	11-Nov-2020	Internet Protocol
3	18-Nov-2020	TCP
	18-Nov-2020	DNS
4	25-Nov-2020	Internet vs WWW
	25-Nov-2020	HTTP
5	2-Dec-2020	Web Content
	2-Dec-2020	Dynamic Web Content
6	9-Dec-2020	How big is the web
	9-Dec-2020	Descriptive Models
7	16-Dec-2020	Advanced Statistical Models
	16-Dec-2020	Modeling Similarity
8	13-Jan-2021	Generative Modelling of Web
	13-Jan-2021	Graph Theoretic Web Modelling
9	20-Jan-2021	Paper reading/writing
	20-Jan-2021	Meme Spreading
11	27-Jan-2021	Herding Behaviour
	27-Jan-2021	Online Advertisement
12	03-Feb-2021	Copyright
	03-Feb-2021	Misinformation A
13	10-Feb-2021	Misinformation B, Summary

Lecturers