CS 395 - Research Methods in Data and Web Science Spring 2020 CRN: 31962 Instructor: Michael L. Nelson http://www.cs.odu.edu/~mln/ Office Hours: W, 2:00-4:00 and by appointment Time: W 4:20 - 7:00 pm Place: Dragas, r. 1102 Prerequisites/corequisites: CS 330, CS 300T, or instructor permission; familiarity with Unix and the command line. Attendance Policy: Attendance is required for class participation, presentation, and discussion. Absences must cleared with the instructor prior to class. You are responsible for everything that is said, discussed, and presented during class. Grading: The class grade will consist of 11 Assignments of 10 points each, with an additional 20 points based on class and online participation. This is built-in extra credit, with a maximum possible score of 130/100. Some of the assignments will require presentation/demoing in class. Late assignments lose 3 points for every 24 hours they are late unless prior arrangements are made with the intstuctor. Assignment descriptions and due dates will be released on a rolling basis during the semester. Grading Scale: A = 100-92 A- = 91-90 B+ = 89-87 B = 86-82 B- = 81-80 C+ = 79-77 C = 76-72 C- = 71-70 D+ = 69-67 D = 66-62 D- = 61-60 F = 59-00 Class Web Page: https://github.com/phonedude/cs395-s20 Class Email List: http://groups.google.com/group/cs395-s20/ You need to register yourself to this list. All class announcements will go to this email list. Class Textbook: None. Class readings will be posted on the class web page. Disability Services: In compliance with PL94-142 and more recent federal legislation affirming the rights of disabled individuals, provisions will be made for students with special needs on an individual basis. The student must have been identified as special needs by the university and an appropriate letter must be provided to the course instructor. Provision will be made based upon written guidelines from the University's Office of Educational Accessibility (http://www.odu.edu/educationalaccessibility). All students are expected to fulfill all course requirements. Students are encouraged to self-disclose disabilities that have been verified by the Office of Educational Accessibility by providing Accommodation Letters to their instructors early in the semester in order to start receiving accommodations. Accommodations will not be made until the Accommodation Letters are provided to instructors each semester. ODU Honor Code: Please familiarize yourself with the ODU Honor Code: https://www.odu.edu/about/monarchcitizenship especially resources pertaining to plagiarism and academic integrity: https://graduate.cs.odu.edu/resources/academic-integrity/ The following statements apply to this class and come from: https://odu.edu/facultystaff/teaching/conduct-integrity Old Dominion University is committed to students' personal and academic success. In order to achieve this vision, students, faculty, and staff work together to create an environment that provides the best opportunity for academic inquiry and learning. All students must be honest and forthright in their academic studies. Your work in this course and classroom behavior must align with the expectations outlined in the Code of Student Conduct, which can be found at www.odu.edu/oscai. The following behaviors along with classroom disruptions violate this policy, corrupt the educational process, and will not be tolerated. Cheating: Using unauthorized assistance, materials, study aids, or other information in any academic exercise. Plagiarism: Using someone else’s language, ideas, or other original material without acknowledging its source in any academic exercise. Fabrication: Inventing, altering or falsifying any data, citation or information in any academic exercise. Facilitation: Helping another student commit, or attempt to commit, any Academic Integrity violation, or failure to report suspected Academic Integrity violations to a faculty member. Any evidence of an academic integrity violation (cheating) will result in a 0 grade for the assignment/exam, and the incident will be submitted to the Department of Computer Science for further review. Note that academic integrity violations can result in a permanent notation being placed on the student's transcript or even expulsion from the University. Evidence of cheating may include a student being unable to satisfactorily answer questions asked by the instructor about a submitted solution. Cheating includes not only receiving unauthorized assistance, but also giving unauthorized assistance.