Social Network Analysis by Lada Adamic (University of Michigan)
Description:
Everything is connected: people, information, events and places, all the more so with the advent of online social media. A practical way of making sense of the tangle of connections is to analyze them as networks. In this course you will learn about the structure and evolution of networks, drawing on knowledge from disciplines as diverse as sociology, mathematics, computer science, economics, and physics. Online interactive demonstrations and hands-on analysis of real-world data sets will focus on a range of tasks: from identifying important nodes in the network, to detecting communities, to tracing information diffusion and opinion formation.
The item on the syllabus that caught my eye:
Ahn et al., and Teng et al.: Learning about cooking from ingredient and flavor networks
On which see:
Flavor network and the principles of food pairing, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Sebastian E. Ahnert, James P. Bagrow & Albert-László Barabási.
or
Recipe recommendation using ingredient networks, Chun-Yuen Teng, Yu-Ru Lin, Lada A. Adamic,
Heavier on the technical side than Julia Child reruns but enjoyable none the less.