Semantic web mining

Project 16 | Group 8

The aim of the project is to find botnets from a twitter dataset using the high-coordination and high-synchronization behaviors of different users.

Datasets

To save time use the pickle files in the pickle/ folder. Other large pickle files are :

coord_graph.pkl

main_df.pkl

retweets_df.pkl

user_df_map.pkl

The complete dataset can be obtained here.

Bots camps

Top 25 hashtags used by puppets

Word cloud of the hashtags

High synchronization and coordination

Network visualization of the coordination behavior of the bots