ECE398BD: Network Analytics (Logistics)

Instructors

Pramod Viswanath
Office: 118 Coordinated Science Laboratory
Email: pramodv [at] illinois [dot] edu
Office Hours: Tuesday 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, 118 CSL

Peter Kairouz
Email: kairouz2 [at] illinois [dot] edu
Office Hours: Monday 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, 119 CSL

Logistics

There is no required textbook. The notes contain pointers to relevant references. Some general references are given below.

Lab Submission: Email your completed IPython notebook (name it firstname_lastname_labnumber.ipynb) with all the code run to kairouz2 [at] illinois [dot] edu.

Grading: You will have a weekly in-lab quiz at the start of each lab. We will upload the quiz before the lab session so that you can take a look and come prepared. These quizzes are short (approximately 30 minutes) and are designed to test the concepts you have learned in class. The quizzes form 30% of your grade. The labs will form the remaining 70% of your grade. Each lab will be weighted equally. If you have a request for re-grading, the request must be submitted in writing within a week of the lab being returned to you. It should have a clear explanation of what you would like to be looked at again. Grades will be posted on Compass.

Late Policy: Your grade will be deducted 20 points (late penalty) for each day after the due date.

There are no exceptions to these policies beyond the standard policies of the university (e.g. disability accomodations, serious illness, etc.). If you need an exception, please contact Prof. Viswanath.

These policies apply only to the “Network Analytics” section of the course.

General References

You do not need any of the following references, but they may be useful to expand on some of the topics seen in class.

  • David Easley, Jon Kleinberg, and Eva Tardos, Networks, crowds and markets, edX online course, [link]

  • Lada Adamic, Social and information netowrk analysis, CS 224W at Stanford, [link]

  • Devavrat Shah and Tauhid Zaman, Rumors in a network: who's the culprit?, Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on, IEEE 2011, pp. 5163-5181, [link]

  • Santo Fortunato, Community detection in graphs, [link]