LFU:online

Learning objectives of the course: After completion of this course, students should be able to understand, reproduce and apply the content of the lectures. Further, they should have acquired the competence to work independently with and acquire knowledge in similar subjects.

Overview: The goal of this course is to introduce students to actual topics in Information Systems. Students will discuss general trends that affect or are the effect of developments in information and communication technologies and their adoption by companies, organizations, individuals and societies. Students will investigate research papers, theories and methods related to these topics and build on these in analysing case examples, case studies and software tools and platforms. This year’s focal topic will be Social Data Analytics. Students will be exposed to problems and challenges that can be addressed by Big Data Analytics methods and techniques as well as get hands on experience in analysing a data set from Yelp, a crowd-sourced local business review and social networking site, by choosing one of the following topic areas:

-        Natural Language Processing (NLP)

-        Social Network Analysis (SNA)

-        Trend / Time Series Analysis (TA)

More information about the data set and Yelp can be found at https://www.yelp.at/dataset_challenge

Assignments:

-        Trend presentation (20%); 20 min presentation; please use alternative presentation technique, e.g. Prezy

-        Research paper review & in-class discussion (20%); Two research papers to review according to given guideline and structure

-        Group project: Web Cast for big data challenge project Yelp (60%); 20 min presentation; & executive summary (storyboard of 2 pages) & facilitation of 20min discussion

positive completion of the courses referred to in §7 (1) and §7 (2-1)