NETS 7370 Computational Urban Science
Welcome to the homepage of Computational Urban Science, NETS 7370 course in the Network Science PhD Program in Northeastern University
This page contains an outline of the topics, content, and assignments for the semester. Note that this schedule will be updated as the semester progresses, with all changes documented here.
| Week | Date | Topic | Prepare | Slides | Lab | HW | Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jan 9 | Introduction to the course | 📖 | ||||
| Lecture 1-1 - Welcome to CUS 2025 | 🖥️ | ||||||
| Lecture 1-2 - Intro to Computational Urban Science | 🖥️ | ||||||
| Lab 1-1 - Crash course on GIS using R | 💻 | ||||||
| Lab 1-2 - Collect your own mobility data | 💻 | ||||||
| 2 | Jan 20 | Urban Data - Maps + Census | 📖 | 🖥️ | 💻 | ||
| 3 | Jan 27 | Urban Data - Activity: Mobile Phone Data | 📖 | 🖥️ | 💻 | ||
| 4 | Feb 3 | Urban Data - Activity: Social Media + Ethics | 📖 | ||||
| Lecture 4-1 - Social Media data in CUS | 🖥️ | ||||||
| Lecture 4-2 - Ethical considerations in CUS | 🖥️ | ||||||
| Lab 4-1 - Location-based social networks | 💻 | ||||||
| Lab 4-2 - Social media and geographical networks | 💻 | ||||||
| 5 | Feb 10 | Statistical Analysis of Urban Data | 📖 | 🖥️ | ) | ||
| Lab 5-1 - Statistical Analysis of Urban Data | 💻 | ||||||
| Lab 5-2 - Detecting Hotspots in Urban Areas | 💻 | ||||||
| 6 | Feb 17 | Statistical Inference with Urban Data | 📖 | 🖥️ | 💻 | ||
| Released: HW 1 | ✍️ | ||||||
| 7 | Feb 24 | Causal Inference for Urban Data | 📖 | 🖥️ | 💻 | ||
| 8 | March 3 | NU Spring Break | |||||
| 9 | March 10 | Models - Urban Mobility models | 📖 | 🖥️ | |||
| Lab 8-1 - Individual Mobility Models | 💻 | ||||||
| Lab 8-2 - Population Mobility Models | 💻 | ||||||
| 10 | March 17 | Models - Urban Network Models | 📖 | 🖥️ | |||
| Lab 10-1 - Urban transportation network analysis | 💻 | ||||||
| Lab 10-2 - Urban social network analysis | 💻 | ||||||
| 11 | March 24 | Models - Agent-based models + Hypothesis testing | 📖 | 🖥️ | 💻 | ||
| Project topic ideas | 📂 | ||||||
| 12 | March 31 | Applications - Recommendation / Loc. Intelligence | 📖 | 🖥️ | |||
| Lab 12-1 - Next place prediction | 💻 | ||||||
| Lab 12-2 - Location Intelligence | 💻 | ||||||
| Released: HW 2 | ✍️ | ||||||
| 13 | April 7 | Applications - Sustainability / Inequality | 📖 | 🖥️ | |||
| Lab 13-1 - Environmental inequalities | 💻 | ||||||
| Lab 13-2 - Experienced segregation | 💻 | ||||||
| 14 | April 14 | Applications - Climate change / Resilience | 📖 | 🖥️ | 💻 | ||
| Check Project topic ideas | 📂 | ||||||
| 15 | April 21 | Applications - Analysis of Policy Interventions | 📖 | 🖥️ | 💻 | ||
| 16 | April 21 | Applications - Epidemic spreading | |||||
| ??? | Project presentations | 📂 |