Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

https://xkcd.com/2501/ Eight courses from the Web Science and Digital Libraries ( WS-DL ) Group will be offered for Fall 2026.  The classes will be a mixture of asynchronous and f2.  C S 418/518 Web Programming, Ms.  Nasreen Muhammad Arif , Tuesdays & Thursdays 3-4:15  Topics : MySQL, React, Express.js, NodeJS, MVC (Model-View-Control), Search Engines, GitHub   C S 432/532 Web Science,  Ms.  Nasreen Muhammad Arif , asynchronous   Topics : Python, R, D3, ML, and IR.   CS 620 Intro to Data Science & Analytics, Tuesdays & Thursdays 3-4:15,  Dr.  Sampath Jayarathna , and asynchronous (8 week session starting in October), Dr.  Bhanuka Mahanama Topics : Python, Pandas, NumPy, NoSQL, Data Wrangling, ML, Colab. CS 625 Data Visualization ,  Dr.  Bhanuka Mahanama , Web, asynchronous  Topics : Tableau, Python Seaborn, Matplotlib, Vega-Lite, Observable, Markdown, OpenRefine, data cleaning, visual p...

  https://xkcd.com/2700/ Five courses from the Web Science and Digital Libraries ( WS-DL ) Group will be offered for Spring 2025.  The classes will be a mixture of on-line, f2f, and hybrid.  C S 418/518 Web Programming, Ms.  Nasreen Muhammad Arif , Tuesday & Thursday 6-7:15 and online   Topics : MySQL, React, Express.js, NodeJS, MVC (Model-View-Control), Search Engines, GitHub   C S 432/532 Web Science,  Ms.  Nasreen Muhammad Arif , asynchronous   Topics : Python, R, D3, ML, and IR.   CS 725/825 Information Visualization and Visual Analytics , Dr.  Michele C. Weigle , Monday & Wednesday 3-4:15 and online   Topics : Vega-Lite, D3, visual analytics, interactive visualizations, dashboard design. CS 728/828 Deep Learning ,   Dr.  Jian Wu , Tuesday 6-8:40   Topics : fully-connected neural networks, recurrent neural networks, convolutional neural networks, regularization, generalization, loss fun...

  https://xkcd.com/1897/ Seven courses from the Web Science and Digital Libraries ( W S-DL ) Group will be offered for Spring 2023.  The classes will be a mixture of on-line, f2f, and hybrid.  CS 432/532 Web Science , Dr. Faryaneh Poursardar , asynchronous  Topics : Python, R, D3, ML, and IR.   CS 480/580 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence , Dr. Vikas Ashok , Tuesday & Thursday, 3:00-4:15pm.   Topics : problem representation, problem-solving methods, search, pattern recognition, natural language processing, vision processing, machine learning, and expert systems. CS 625 Data Visualization , Dr.  Faryaneh Poursardar ,  Tuesday & Thursday, 9:30-10:45am, and 1:30-2:45pm.  Topics : Tableau, R, Vega-Lite, Observable, Markdown, OpenRefine, data cleaning, visual perception, visualization design, exploratory data analysis, visual storytelling.    CS 725/825 Information Visualization and Visual Analytics , Dr. Michel...

https://xkcd.com/2385/   Profs. Michael L. Nelson , Michele C. Weigle , and Jian Wu have been awarded a $10,000 COVA CCI Academic Curriculum Development Grant ( RFP COVACCI-21-05 ) with their proposal "Web Science and Web Security".  The deliverables of this project will include preparing and packaging for use outside of ODU four existing Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) Research Group courses that involve Web Security. Recently, WS-DL’s research and course offerings have moved toward the intersection of the web and security. In the process of developing and delivering our courses, it has become clear that we needed to offer a 400/500 level course focused on web client security .  Given the central role that the web plays in our daily commerce, education, and entertainment, we should be doing a better job producing BS and MS students with expertise in securing web applications. While web security is a significant portion of cybersecurity, it is often overlo...

https://xkcd.com/2502/ Six courses from the Web Science and Digital Libraries ( WS-DL ) Group will be offered in Fall 2021.  Because of the continuing Covid-19 situation, the classes will be a mixture of on-line, f2f, and hybrid.  Be sure to check with the instructor and/or the class schedule to verify how the class will be conducted.  Also keep in mind that the f2f classes might go on-line during the semester.  CS 418/518 Web Programming , Dr. Jian Wu , Tuesdays & Thursdays 3-4:15. Topics : LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), MVC (Model-View-Control), Search Engines, GitHub.   CS 432/532 Web Science , Dr. Michele C. Weigle , asynchronous.  Topics : Python, R, D3, ML, and IR.   CS 620 Intro to Data Science & Analytics , Dr. Sampath Jayarathna , Web PLE. Tuesdays 6:00-7:00pm (recitation). Topics : Python, Pandas, NumPy, NoSQL, Data Wrangling, ML. CS 625 Data Visualization , Dr. Michele C. Weigle , Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:30-10:45....

https://xkcd.com/1264/ Six courses from the Web Science and Digital Libraries ( WS-DL ) Group will be offered in Spring 2021.  Because of Covid-19 , most of these classes will either be completely on-line or offered in a hybrid on-line / f2f option.  Check with the instructor to verify how the class will be conducted. CS 418/518 Web Programming , Dr. Jian Wu , Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:30-2:45. Topics : LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), MVC (Model-View-Control), Search Engines, GitHub.   CS 432/532 Web Science , Dr. Michele C. Weigle , asynchronous.  Topics : Python, R, D3, ML, and IR.   CS 480/580 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence , Dr. Vikas Ashok , Tuesdays & Thursdays, 3:00-4:15.   Topics : problem representation, problem-solving methods, search, pattern recognition, natural language processing, vision processing, machine learning, and expert systems. CS 495/595 Web Security , Dr. Michael L. Nelson , online Thursdays, 4:20-7:00....

https://xkcd.com/2347/ A record seven courses from the Web Science and Digital Libraries ( WS-DL ) Group will be offered in Fall 2020.  Because of Covid-19 , most of these classes will either be completely on-line or offered in a hybrid on-line / f2f option.  Check with the instructor to verify how the class will be conducted. CS 418/518 Web Programming , Dr. Jian Wu , Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:30-2:45. Topics : LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), MVC (Model-View-Control), Search Engines, GitHub  CS 432/532 Web Science , Dr. Michele C. Weigle , asynchronous.  Topics : Python, R, D3, ML, and IR.  CS 620 Intro to Data Science & Analytics , Dr. Sampath Jayarathna , Web PLE. Tuesdays 4:30-5:30pm (recitation). Topics : Python, Pandas, NumPy, NoSQL, Data Wrangling, ML CS 625 Data Visualization , Dr. Michele C. Weigle , Tuesdays & Thursdays 9:30-10:45. Topics : Tableau, R, Vega-Lite, Data Types, Maps, Colors, Tables CS 795/895 Mining Scholarly Bi...

" Both arXiv and archive.org are invaluable projects which, if they didn't exist, we would dismiss as obviously ridiculous and unworkable." A record five WS-DL classes are offered for Spring 2019: CS 432/532 Web Science is taught by Alexander Nwala , Thursdays 4:20-7:00pm.  This class explores web phenomena with a variety of data science tools such as Python, R, D3, ML, and IR.  CS 725/825 Information Visualization is taught by Dr. Michele C. Weigle , Wednesdays 9:30am-12:15pm. This class will explore the background and tools needed to develop effective visualizations through analyzing existing visualizations and visualization problems. CS 734/834 Information Retrieval is taught by Dr. Jian Wu , Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:30-10:45am.  This class will explore the theory and engineering of information retrieval in the context of developing web-based search engines. CS 795/895 Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is taught by Dr. Sampath Jayarathna , Tuesdays...

Two Web Science & Digital Library ( WS-DL ) courses will be offered in Spring 2018:  CS 725/825 " Information Visualization ", Wednesdays 9:30-12:15 pm (CRNs 24134 & 24135) offered by Dr. Michele C. Weigle .  This will be an updated version of the same course most recently taught in Fall 2017 (from which the figure above is taken).  CS 432/532 " Web Science ", Tuesdays 4:20-7 pm (CRNs 24600 & 24601) offered by Alexander Nwala .  This will be an updated version of the course most recently taught by Dr. Michael Nelson in Spring 2017 .  Also, although they are not WS-DL courses per se, WS-DL member Corren McCoy is also teaching CS 462 Cybersecurity Fundamentals again this semester, and WS-DL alumnus Dr. Charles Cartledge is teaching two classes: CS 395 " Data Wrangling " and CS 395 " Data Analysis ". --Michael