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Bot or Not: Detecting Fraudulent Social Media Accounts

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1. Greg Starek Insight Data Science Bot or Not: Detecting Fraudulent Social Media Accounts
3. Bot Followers Human Followers Bot Followers Human Followers Bots are under-followed Bots are spammy Number of Followers Follower Max Post Rate Proportion of Followers Proportion of Followers
4. Bot Followers Human Followers Bot Followers Human Followers Bots are under-followed Bots are spammy Number of Followers Follower Max Post Rate Proportion of Followers Proportion of Followers
5. Instagram API: Data Bottleneck Complete sampling of both features requires > 6 hours
6. Instagram API: Data Bottleneck Bootstrapping a random subsample takes < 5 minutes! Complete sampling of both features requires > 6 hours
7. Bot or Not delivers: 1. Improved fraud detection 2. Classifier to build predictive model 3. Sampling method within constraints of Instagram API 4. Scalable solution
8. Greg Starek