{"id":10850,"date":"2014-10-21T10:07:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T14:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/?page_id=10850"},"modified":"2026-05-26T14:52:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:52:05","slug":"cs688","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/academic-programs\/courses\/cs688\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Mining and Graph Analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>p {margin-bottom:0px;} .course-feed .cf-course h4 {display: none; white-space: wrap;} .button{width:125px;}<\/style>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"course-feed\"><div class=\"cf-course\">\n\t<h4>Web Mining and Graph Analytics<\/h4>\n\t<p class=\"meta\">MET CS 688 (4 credits)<\/p>\n\t\n\t<p>Prerequisites: MET CS 544, or MET CS 555 or equivalent knowledge, or instructor's consent. - The Web Mining and Graph Analytics course covers the areas of web mining, machine learning fundamentals, text mining, clustering, and graph analytics. This includes learning fundamentals of machine learning algorithms, how to evaluate algorithm performance, feature engineering, content extraction, sentiment analysis, distance metrics, fundamentals of clustering algorithms, how to evaluate clustering performance, and fundamentals of graph analysis algorithms, link analysis and community detection based on graphs. Laboratory Course.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<p class=\"\"><em>2026SPRGMETCS688A1, Jan 20th to Apr 30th 2026<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-table\">\n<table>\n\t<tr>\n\t\t<th>Days<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Start<\/th>\n\t\t<th>End<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Type<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Bldg<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Room<\/th>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t<tr>\n\t<td>M<\/td>\n\t<td>06:00 PM<\/td>\n\t<td>08:45 PM<\/td>\n\t<td><\/td>\n\t<td>FLR<\/td>\n\t<td>123<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div><p class=\"\"><em>2026SPRGMETCS688O2, Mar 10th to Apr 27th 2026<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-table\">\n<table>\n\t<tr>\n\t\t<th>Days<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Start<\/th>\n\t\t<th>End<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Type<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Bldg<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Room<\/th>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t<tr>\n\t<td>ARR<\/td>\n\t<td>12:00 AM<\/td>\n\t<td>12:00 AM<\/td>\n\t<td><\/td>\n\t<td><\/td>\n\t<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Format &amp; Syllabus:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"btn-group\">\n<div class=\"dropdown\">\n<p><button class=\"button\">On Campus<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"dropdown-content\"><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2026\/03\/688_syllabus_CS_spring2026.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2026\/05\/Syllabus_METCS688-C1.pdf\">CS688 SUM26<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2026\/03\/688_syllabus_CS_spring2026.pdf\">688 A1 SPRG26<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/01\/Syllabus_METCS688-A2.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/04\/Syllabus_METCS688-C1.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/08\/Syllabus_METCS688-A2.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/10\/688_syllabus_CS_Fall2025.pdf\">688 A1 FALL25<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/08\/Syllabus_METCS688-A2.pdf\">688 A2 FALL25<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/04\/Syllabus_METCS688-C1.pdf\">CS688 SUM25 <\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/01\/Syllabus_METCS688-A1.pdf\">CS688 SPRG25<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/01\/Syllabus_METCS688-A2.pdf\">CS688 A2 SPRG<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/01\/Syllabus_METCS688-A1.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2024\/08\/688-A1-Syllabus_METCS.pdf\">CS688 A1 FA24<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2024\/08\/688-A2-_syllabus_LG_Fall2024.docx\">CS688 A2 FA24<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2024\/01\/CS-688-A1-Zlatko-Vasilkoski.pdf\">CS688A1 SP24<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2022\/08\/MET_CS688-A2_Spring-2022_Web-Analyt-Min.pdf\">CS688A2 SP22<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2022\/08\/MET_CS688-A1_Spring-2022_Web-Analyt-Min.docx\">CS688A1 SP22<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2021\/08\/Syllabus_METCS688.pdf\">CS688 FALL21<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2021\/02\/CS-688-A1-Syllabus.pdf\">CS688 SPRG21<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2020\/07\/MET-CS-688-2020-Rawassizadeh.docx\">CS688 SUM20<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2020\/02\/CS688-A2-Syllabus.pdf\">CS688 A2 SP20<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2019\/12\/METCS688_SPRG20_Syllabus.pdf\">CS688 A1 SP20<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2018\/11\/CS688_A2_Fall_2018.pdf\">CS688 FALL18<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2018\/05\/CS688_C1_Spring-2018.pdf\">CS688 SPRG18<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2018\/05\/CS688_C1_Summer-2017.pdf\">CS688 SUM17<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2015\/08\/CS688_C1_Fall-20151.docx\">CS688 FALL15<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dropdown\">\n<p><button class=\"button\">Online<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"dropdown-content\"><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/05\/CS688-SUM25.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2026\/03\/MET-CS-688-Syllabus-Online.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2026\/05\/MET-CS-688-Syllabus-Online.pdf\">CS688 SUM26<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2026\/03\/MET-CS-688-Syllabus-Online.pdf\">688 O2 SPRG26<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/05\/CS688-SUM25.pdf\">CS688 SUM25<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2022\/09\/688-Syllabus-Fall1-2022.pdf\">CS688 FALL22<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2021\/02\/MET-CS688-Web-Analytics-and-Mining.pdf\">CS688 SPRG21<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2020\/02\/CS688O2_Spring2020.pdf\">CS688 SPRG20<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2019\/11\/CS-688-OL.pdf\">CS688 FALL19<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2019\/08\/CS688_O2_Syllabus_Spring-2-2019.docx\">CS688 SPRG19<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2018\/11\/CS688-O1.pdf\">CS688 FALL18<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2018\/05\/CS688_O1_Spring-2018.pdf\">CS688 SPRG18<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dropdown\"><button disabled=\"disabled\" class=\"button\">Blended<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clearfloat\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Format &amp; 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