NETS 7370 Computational Urban Science
Welcome to the homepage of Computational Urban Science, NETS 7370 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 | Sep 15 | 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 | Sep 22 | Urban Data - Maps + Census | 📖 | 🖥️ | 💻 | ||
| 3 | Sep 29 | Urban Data - Activity: Mobile Phone Data | 📖 | 🖥️ | 💻 | ||
| 4 | Oct 6 | Urban Data - Activity: Social Media + Ethics | 📖 | ||||
| Lecture 4-1 - Social Media data in CUS | 🖥️ | ||||||
| Lecture 4-2 - Ethical considerations in CUS | 🖥️ | ||||||
| Lab 4-1 - Location-based social networks | 💻 | ||||||
| Lab 4-2 - Social media and geographical networks | 💻 | ||||||
| 5 | Oct 13 | Statistical Analysis of Urban Data | 📖 | 🖥️ | |||
| Lab 5-1 - Statistical Analysis of Urban Data | 💻 | ||||||
| Lab 5-2 - Detecting Hotspots in Urban Areas | 💻 | ||||||
| 6 | Oct 20 | Statistical Inference with Urban Data | 📖 | 🖥️ | 💻 | ||
| Released: HW 1 | ✍️ | ||||||
| 7 | Oct 27 | Causal Inference for Urban Data | 📖 | 🖥️ | 💻 | ||
| 8 | Nov 3 | Models - Urban Mobility models | 📖 | 🖥️ | |||
| Lab 8-1 - Individual Mobility Models | 💻 | ||||||
| Lab 8-2 - Population Mobility Models | 💻 | ||||||
| 9 | Nov 10 | Models - Urban Network Models | 📖 | 🖥️ | |||
| Lab 10-1 - Urban transportation network analysis | 💻 | ||||||
| Lab 10-2 - Urban social network analysis | 💻 | ||||||
| 10 | Nov 17 | Models - Agent-based models + Hypothesis testing | 📖 | 🖥️ | 💻 | ||
| Project topic ideas | 📂 | ||||||
| 11 | Nov 24 | Applications - Recommendation / Loc. Intelligence | 📖 | 🖥️ | |||
| Lab 12-1 - Next place prediction | 💻 | ||||||
| Lab 12-2 - Location Intelligence | 💻 | ||||||
| Released: HW 2 | ✍️ | ||||||
| 12 | Dec 1 | Applications - Sustainability / Inequality | 📖 | 🖥️ | |||
| Lab 13-1 - Environmental inequalities | 💻 | ||||||
| Lab 13-2 - Experienced segregation | 💻 | ||||||
| 13 | Dec 8 | Applications - Climate change / Resilience | 📖 | 🖥️ | 💻 | ||
| Check Project topic ideas | 📂 | ||||||
| 14 | Dec 15 | Applications - Analysis of Policy Interventions | 📖 | 🖥️ | 💻 | ||
| 14-2 | Dec 16 | Project presentations | 📂 |