Complex Networks
First step to social media analysis
The rapid increase of social media users alongside the remarkable amount of time each user spends on these platforms has made social media a prominent and impactful factor in our lifestyle and in reshaping societies. In this event, you would get a fundamental understanding of how social media affects our lives, and how we can investigate its role in important social and personal phenomena. You will be introduced to the basics of data gathering, particularly from Twitter, be trained in one of the best and most popular network visualization tools, called Gephi, will be introduced to the importance of text and sentiment analysis in addition to its technical challenges, and finally, use real data to familiarize yourself with the text analysis process and participate in creating one of the first labeled databases in Farsi.
Before you register:
- Please bring a fully-charged laptop and download Gephi and Harry Potter’s Graph before the event.
- Snacks are provided during breaks(lunch is not included).
- All of the participants will be certified.
- This event will be held in Farsi.
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Lecturers

G. Reza Jafari
Physics Department, and Cognitive Science, SBU
Saeedeh Mohammadi
Sponsors
Schedule
Title | Lecturer | Time(IRST) |
An introduction to Social Networks | Reza Jafari | 10:00-10:35 |
Urgent path to Data Gathering | Parham Moradi | 10:35-11:10 |
Break | – | 11:10-11:30 |
Gephi: Visualize your network | Saeedeh Mohammadi | 11:30-12:30 |
Lunch Break | – | 12:30-13:30 |
The smiley face crisis: Why sentiment matters | Parsa Bigdeli | 13:30-14:10 |
Sentiment Analysis Workshop | The Twitter Team | 14:10-16:10 |
Break | – | 16:10-16:30 |
How “Hey SIRI” works(NLP) | Amirhossein Pilehvarian | 16:30-17:10 |
Datasets & Softwares
Click the button to download Gephi:
Click the button to download Harry Potter’s Graph: