NETS 7983 Computational Urban Science
Welcome to the homepage of Computational Urban Science, NETS 7983 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 | Tue Jan 7 | 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 | Tue Jan 14 | Urban Data - Maps + Census | 📖 | 🖥️ | 💻 | ||
| 3 | Tue Jan 21 | Urban Data - Activity: Mobile Phone Data | 📖 | 🖥️ | 💻 | ||
| 4 | Tue Jan 28 | Urban Data - Activity: Social Media + Ethics | 📖 | ||||
| Tue Jan 28 | Lecture 4-1 - Social Media data in CUS | 🖥️ | |||||
| Tue Jan 28 | Lecture 4-2 - Ethical considerations in CUS | 🖥️ | |||||
| Tue Jan 28 | Lab 4-1 - Location-based social networks | 💻 | |||||
| Tue Jan 28 | Lab 4-2 - Social media and geographical networks | 💻 | |||||
| 5 | Tue Feb 4 | Statistical Analysis of Urban Data | 📖 | 🖥️ | 💻 | ||
| 6 | Tue Feb 11 | Statistical Inference with Urban Data | 📖 | 🖥️ | 💻 | ||
| Wed Feb 12 | Released: HW 1 | ✍️ | |||||
| 7 | Tue Feb 18 | Causal Inference for Urban Data | 📖 | 🖥️ | 💻 | ||
| 8 | Tue Feb 25 | Models - Urban Mobility models | 📖 | 🖥️ | |||
| Tue Feb 25 | Lab 8-1 - Individual Mobility Models | 💻 | |||||
| Tue Feb 25 | Lab 8-2 - Population Mobility Models | 💻 | |||||
| 9 | Tue Mar 4 | NU Spring Break | |||||
| 10 | Tue Mar 11 | Models - Urban Network Models | 📖 | 🖥️ | |||
| Tue Mar 11 | Lab 10-1 - Urban transportation network analysis | 💻 | |||||
| Tue Mar 11 | Lab 10-2 - Urban social network analysis | 💻 | |||||
| 11 | Tue Mar 18 | Models - Agent-based models + Hypothesis testing | 📖 | 🖥️ | 💻 | ||
| Tue Mar 18 | Project topic ideas | 📂 | |||||
| 12 | Tue Mar 25 | Applications - Recommendation / Loc. Intelligence | 📖 | 🖥️ | |||
| Tue Mar 25 | Lab 12-1 - Next place prediction | 💻 | |||||
| Tue Mar 25 | Lab 12-2 - Location Intelligence | 💻 | |||||
| Wed Mar 26 | Released: HW 2 | ✍️ | |||||
| 13 | Tue Apr 1 | Applications - Sustainability / Inequality | 📖 | 🖥️ | |||
| Tue Apr 1 | Lab 13-1 - Environmental inequalities | 💻 | |||||
| Tue Apr 1 | Lab 13-2 - Experienced segregation | 💻 | |||||
| 14 | Tue Apr 8 | Applications - Climate change / Resilience | 📖 | 🖥️ | 💻 | ||
| Wed Apr 9 | Check Project topic ideas | 📂 | |||||
| 15 | Tue Apr 15 | Applications - Analysis of Policy Interventions | 📖 | 🖥️ | 💻 | ||
| 16 | Tue Apr 22 | Applications - Epidemic spreading | |||||
| Fri Apr 25 | Project presentations | 📂 |