COMS W4223
Networks, Crowds, and the Web
Introduces fundamental ideas and algorithms on networks of information collected by online services. It covers properties pervasive in large networks, dynamics of individuals that lead to large collective phenomena, mechanisms underlying the web economy, and results and tools informing societal impact of algorithms on privacy, polarization and discrimination
Prerequisites & course information
Prerequisites: Familiarity with elementary concepts of probability and data structures or experience programming with data
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027