From: Nate E TeBlunthuis <nathante@n3003.hyak.local>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 18:34:36 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: calculate some user-level attributes to detect bots
X-Git-Url: https://code.communitydata.science/cdsc_reddit.git/commitdiff_plain/ac06a8757ae1258d5357e8cefbcf3db9f7f3081d?ds=inline

calculate some user-level attributes to detect bots
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diff --git a/bots/good_bad_bot.py b/bots/good_bad_bot.py
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+from pyspark.sql import functions as f
+from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
+from pyspark.sql import Window
+from pyspark.sql.types import FloatType
+import zlib
+
+def zlib_entropy_rate(s):
+    sb = s.encode()
+    if len(sb) == 0:
+        return None
+    else:
+        return len(zlib.compress(s.encode(),level=6))/len(s.encode())
+    
+zlib_entropy_rate_udf = f.udf(zlib_entropy_rate,FloatType())
+
+spark = SparkSession.builder.getOrCreate()
+
+df = spark.read.parquet("/gscratch/comdata/output/reddit_comments_by_author.parquet",compression='snappy')
+
+df = df.withColumn("saidbot",f.lower(f.col("body")).like("%bot%"))
+
+# df = df.filter(df.subreddit=='seattle')
+# df = df.cache()
+botreplies = df.filter(f.lower(df.body).rlike(".*[good|bad] bot.*"))
+botreplies = botreplies.select([f.col("parent_id").substr(4,100).alias("bot_comment_id"),f.lower(f.col("body")).alias("good_bad_bot"),f.col("link_id").alias("gbbb_link_id")])
+botreplies = botreplies.groupby(['bot_comment_id']).agg(f.count('good_bad_bot').alias("N_goodbad_votes"),
+                                                        f.sum((f.lower(f.col('good_bad_bot')).like('%good bot%').astype("double"))).alias("n_good_votes"),
+                                                        f.sum((f.lower(f.col('good_bad_bot')).like('%bad bot%').astype("double"))).alias("n_bad_votes"))
+
+comments_by_author = df.select(['author','id','saidbot']).groupBy('author').agg(f.count('id').alias("N_comments"),
+                                                                                f.mean(f.col('saidbot').astype("double")).alias("prop_saidbot"),
+                                                                                f.sum(f.col('saidbot').astype("double")).alias("n_saidbot"))
+
+# pd_comments_by_author = comments_by_author.toPandas()
+# pd_comments_by_author['frac'] = 500 / pd_comments_by_author['N_comments']
+# pd_comments_by_author.loc[pd_comments_by_author.frac > 1, 'frac'] = 1
+# fractions = pd_comments_by_author.loc[:,['author','frac']]
+# fractions = fractions.set_index('author').to_dict()['frac']
+
+# sampled_author_comments = df.sampleBy("author",fractions).groupBy('author').agg(f.concat_ws(" ", f.collect_list('body')).alias('comments'))
+df = df.withColumn("randn",f.randn(seed=1968))
+
+win = Window.partitionBy("author").orderBy("randn")
+
+df = df.withColumn("randRank",f.rank().over(win))
+sampled_author_comments = df.filter(f.col("randRank") <= 1000)
+sampled_author_comments = sampled_author_comments.groupBy('author').agg(f.concat_ws(" ", f.collect_list('body')).alias('comments'))
+
+author_entropy_rates = sampled_author_comments.select(['author',zlib_entropy_rate_udf(f.col('comments')).alias("entropy_rate")])
+
+parents = df.join(botreplies, on=df.id==botreplies.bot_comment_id,how='right_outer')
+
+win1 = Window.partitionBy("author")
+parents = parents.withColumn("first_bot_reply",f.min(f.col("CreatedAt")).over(win1))
+
+first_bot_reply = parents.filter(f.col("first_bot_reply")==f.col("CreatedAt"))
+first_bot_reply = first_bot_reply.withColumnRenamed("CreatedAt","FB_CreatedAt")
+first_bot_reply = first_bot_reply.withColumnRenamed("id","FB_id")
+
+comments_since_first_bot_reply = df.join(first_bot_reply,on = 'author',how='right_outer').filter(f.col("CreatedAt")>=f.col("first_bot_reply"))
+comments_since_first_bot_reply = comments_since_first_bot_reply.groupBy("author").agg(f.count("id").alias("N_comments_since_firstbot"))
+
+bots = parents.groupby(['author']).agg(f.sum('N_goodbad_votes').alias("N_goodbad_votes"),
+                                          f.sum(f.col('n_good_votes')).alias("n_good_votes"),
+                                          f.sum(f.col('n_bad_votes')).alias("n_bad_votes"),
+                                          f.count(f.col('author')).alias("N_bot_posts"))
+
+bots = bots.join(comments_by_author,on="author",how='left_outer')
+bots = bots.join(comments_since_first_bot_reply,on="author",how='left_outer')
+bots = bots.join(author_entropy_rates,on='author',how='left_outer')
+
+bots = bots.orderBy("N_goodbad_votes",ascending=False)
+bots = bots.repartition(1)
+bots.write.parquet("/gscratch/comdata/output/reddit_good_bad_bot.parquet",mode='overwrite')