Thanks Ted I will definately take your suggestion. On 21 June 2011 17:58, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote:
> Once you have those features, however, you should be good to go. > > See Sara Javanmardi's work on wikipedia vandalism detection for some > interesting work in this regard (not necessarily > mahout-ish). Her page is at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~sjavanma/ > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Sebastian Schelter <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I guess it depends on what features you want to use to detect those fake > > profiles. > > > > If you want to look at network features of the social graph there is not > > much Mahout has to offer currently. We had a patch starting a graph > mining > > module recently but its only at its very beginning. > > > > --sebastian > > > > > > > > On 21.06.2011 17:37, Neville Agius wrote: > > > >> I am currently searching an interesting topic for my MSc dissertation in > >> Internet Systems. One interesting area is the detection of fake profiles > >> or > >> fraudulent activities in social networks. Is Mahout good for this > purpose? > >> And if it is can someone enlighten me with a good place/area to start > with > >> since I am new to Mahout. Thanks.Neville > >> > >> > > >
