The course aims to provide students with the main concepts behind the management of data originating from the Web and social media, from collection to modeling, to subsequent analysis and search.

Students will be able, in particular, to collect and store data from the Social Web, either through the use of APIs or scraping, to use advanced representations (both topological and semantic), and to analyze and visualize complex network structures and related analyses. Part of the course will focus especially on the concepts of "Web search" and "social search" and the study of the most appropriate models and dimensions of relevance in the context of the Social Web.