https://github.com/damascenorafael/identify-bots-reddit-comment-network

Characterization and classification of bots using only structural characteristics of the network. Python development of network construction, component analysis and Neural Network for classification.
https://github.com/damascenorafael/identify-bots-reddit-comment-network

bot-detection complex-networks machine-learning network-analysis network-science networkx reddit reddit-bot

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Characterization and classification of bots using only structural characteristics of the network. Python development of network construction, component analysis and Neural Network for classification.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/damascenorafael/identify-bots-reddit-comment-network
• Owner: DamascenoRafael
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2019-12-03T19:47:28.000Z (about 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-05-22T23:55:30.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-02T06:09:22.685Z (9 months ago)
• Topics: bot-detection, complex-networks, machine-learning, network-analysis, network-science, networkx, reddit, reddit-bot
• Language: Jupyter Notebook
• Homepage:
• Size: 26.9 MB
• Stars: 5
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 3
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Characterization and Classification of Bots using Reddit’s Comment Network

## About

This repository refers to a study to characterize and identify bots in a social network using only the network structure. This work considers a directed network of users constructed from comments in Reddit. The network characterization highlights the significant structural differences of bots, allowing them to be classified using only network features.

This work was guided by Professor [Daniel R. Figueiredo](http://www.land.ufrj.br/~daniel/) (PESC / COPPE / UFRJ).

## Publications

- [Full Paper on Brazilian Computing Society (pt-BR)](https://sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/wperformance/article/view/6471)  

Presented at the XXXIX Congresso da Sociedade Brasileira de Computação

- [Undergraduate Project (Poli / COPPE / UFRJ) (pt-BR)](http://monografias.poli.ufrj.br/monografias/monopoli10028221.pdf)  

as a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Computer and Information Engineer

## Using this repository

The code elaborated for this work is compatible with [Python 3.7.8](https://www.python.org/).

To install all dependencies and use Jupyter Notebook with a virtual environment:

```bash

python3 -m venv venv

source venv/bin/activate

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

python3 -m ipykernel install --user --name=venv

jupyter notebook

```

In the `notebooks` folder are the [Jupyter Notebook](https://jupyter.org/) files that can be used to evaluate other datasets.

Reddit Comments datasets can be found in [pushshift](https://files.pushshift.io/reddit/comments/), the files should be placed uncompressed in `data/raw/`.