Fourth Year of Information Technology (2015 Course)

414464D: Elective IV
Social Media Analytics
Unit wise question bank

UNIT I
1. What are the types of Social media data sources?
2. Differentiate between Social media data and NOT social media data.
3. Explain about Estimated Data sources and Factual Data Sources.
4. What is public and private data in Social media? Give example.
5. What are the two ways to gather social media data?
6. Name social media platforms.
7. Assume you are designing a social media platform for reading books. Specify which
common actions you will design. State their functionality.
8. What are estimated and factual data sources?
9. What are the various means to gather data in Social Media?
10. Explain different social media data sources
11. What are different data sources in social media channels?
12. Write down the difference between Estimated Data sources and Factual Data
Sources.
13. Explain different method of Data Gathering in Social Media Analytics

UNIT II
1. Explain the taxonomy of visualization of social networks.
2. What are two predominant approaches to structural visualization?
3. Explain node-link diagrams in detail.
4. Enlist and explain different layout mechanisms for visualization of social networks.
5. Explain semantic and temporal visualization
6. Write a short note on Ontology based visualization.
7. Explain the concept of the Convergence of Visualization, Interaction and Analytics.
8. What are the major methods used for data mining in social networks?
9. What are the most common data mining applications related to social networking
sites?
10. What are the most common data mining applications related to blogosphere?
11. To identify influence of a node which four measures are used by the approach-
iFinder ?
12. Explain in brief about Ethnography ,Netnography and Event Maps.
13. What are sociograms?
14. Explain cliques, isolate and star.
15. What is visualization? State its importance in social media.
16. Explain: liveplasma, musicovery, lastfm, manyeyes.
17. Note on structural visualizations
18. Note on semantic visualizations
19. Note on temporal and statistical visualizations
20. Explain hairball
21. Explain high-level and low level properties of network layout
22. Explain node-trix
23. Explain ontologies
24. Explain ontovis, semantic substrate
25. Explain pivotgraph
26. Explain mobivis, posthistory
27. Note on convergence of visualization, interaction and analytics
28. Application of classification, clustering in SM
29. What is the motivation for data mining in SM
30. Characteristics of SM
31. Data mining methods for SM
32. Data representation
33. Applications of data mining to FB, linkedin
34. Applications of data mining to blogosphere
35. How can influential nodes be identified in SN?
36. Write a note on ehnography, netnography and event maps.
37. Write short note on Convergence of Visualization, Interaction and Analytics
38. Write short note on
i. Visualization and Analysis
ii. Visualization and Interaction.
39. Explain Data mining in Social Media
40. What is Motivations for Data mining in Social Media?
41. What are different Data mining methods for Social Media?
42. Write short note on
a. Ethnography and Netnography
b. Event Maps

UNIT III
1. Write about examples of applications related to text mining in social media.
2. Brief about keyword search. What are the challenges in this regards.
3. Explain hierarchical clustering algorithm with single linkage clustering.
4. Explain k means clustering algorithm.
5. What do you mean by Sampling for Social Networks data? What is the need for
sampling?
6. What are the three Main Strategies for Sampling for homogeneous Social Networks
data?
7. What are the strategies for Sampling for Heterogeneous Social Networks?
8. What are different text mining tools?
9. Explain BANKS algorithm.
10. What is bidirectional search (BANKS ver2)?
11. Explain BLINKS.
12. What is keyword search
13. Challenges in keyword search
14. Explain ObjectRank.
15. Prepare all join trees for keyword search k1, k2, k3.

16. What is Lowest Common Ancestor? Explain the algorithm.

17. What is XRank?
18. Keyword Search over relational data
19. Keyword Search over graph data
20. How is goodness measured in BANKS and bidirectional algo?
21. How is goodness measured in BLINKS and ObjectRank?
22. Challenges in SN classification
23. When is relaxation labeling proposed?
24. What is collective classification?
25. What is Kerninghan-Lin approach?
26. How is topic modeling done? What is two-layered approach?
27. 18 what is transfer learning?
28. Prepare answer tree for query q=(c,d)
29. Write Short note on text mining in social networks.
30. What is keyword search?
31. Explain Classification Algorithms.
32. Explain Clustering Algorithms.
33. Write Short note on
i. Greedy Clustering
ii. Hierarchical clustering
iii. K-means clustering
34. Explain k-means clustering Algorithm with example.
35. Write Short note on Transfer Learning in heterogeneous Networks.
36. What is sampling of online social networks?
37. Write Short note on Comparison of different algorithms used for mining.
38. What are different tools used for text mining?