Module Detailed Content Hours
1. Social Media Analytics: An Overview
Core Characteristics of Social Media, Types of Social Media, Social media landscape, Need for Social Media Analytics (SMA), SMA in small & large organizations.
Purpose of Social Media Analytics, Social Media vs. Traditional Business Analytics, Seven Layers of Social Media Analytics, Types of Social Media Analytics, Social Media Analytics Cycle, Challenges to Social Media Analytics, Social Media Analytics Tools. (Refer chapter 1) 6
2. Social Network Structure, Measures & Visualization
Basics of Social Network Structure - Nodes, Edges & Tie Describing the Networks Measures - Degree Distribution, Density, Connectivity, Centralization, Tie Strength & Trust
Network Visualization - Graph Layout, Visualizing Network features, Scale Issues.
Social Media Network Analytics - Common Network Terms, Common Social Media Network Types, Types of Networks, Common Network Terminologies, Network Analytics Tools. (Refer chapter 2) 6
3. Social Media Text, Action & Hyperlink Analytics
Social Media Text Analytics - Types of Social Media Text, Purpose of Text Analytics, Steps in Text Analytics, Social Media Text Analysis Tools
Social Media Action Analytics - What Is Actions Analytics? Common Social Media Actions, Actions Analytics Tools
Social Media Hyperlink Analytics - Types of Hyperlinks, Types of Hyperlink Analytics, Hyperlink Analytics Tools. (Refer chapter 3) 8
4. Social Media Location & Search Engine Analytics 6
Location Analytics - Sources of Location Data, Categories of Location Analytics, Location Analytics and Privacy Concerns, Location Analytics Tools.
Search Engine Analytics - Types of Search Engines, Search Engine Analytics, Search Engine Analytics Tools. (Refer chapter 4)
5. Social Information Filtering 6
Social Information Filtering - Social Sharing and filtering, Automated Recommendation systems, Traditional Vs social Recommendation Systems
Understanding Social Media and Business Alignment, Social Media KPI, Formulating a Social Media Strategy, Managing Social Media Risks.
(Refer chapter 5)
6. Social Media Analytics Applications and Privacy 7
Social media in public sector - Analyzing public sector social media, analyzing individual users, case study.
Business use of Social Media - Measuring success, Interaction and monitoring, case study.
Privacy - Privacy policies, data ownership and maintaining privacy online.
(Refer chapter 6)