Rabona17 / Weibo_bot_detection

Statistically testing if a celebrity use social media bots

Weibo_bot_detection

• In this project I am testing whether the posts of a famous Chinese celebrity 'Cai' on his social media Weibo receive abnormally high amount of retweets and investigate the reason behind it.

Skills involved:

• Programming Language: Python/Ipython notebook
• Statistics: A/B test(permutation test)
• Data Science: Webscrapping, Data visualization, and text-mining.
• Library used: datascience(a package like Pandas), BeautifulSoup, Numpy, Matplotlib, Jieba, Json, etc.

Conclusion:

• Cai's Weibo posts indeed receive abnormally high amount reposts, and after analyzing the accounts that repost his posts, we found those accounts behaves highlly like bots.

Professor/TAs thought on this project

• This project helps me get an A for my COGS9: Intro to Data Science class at UCSD

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