Python: Detecting Twitter Bots with Graphs and Machine Learning

While bot detection as a goal is nothing new, to the extent that a project like this would have been impossible without drawing on the prior and vital work referenced above, there were a few topics within the problem space that I thought could be further explored. The first was scale and reduction. I wouldn't describe my data science expertise at any level above "hobbyist", and as such, processing power and Twitter API access were both factors I had to keep in mind. I knew I wouldn't be able to replicate the accuracy of models by larger, more established groups, so instead one of the things I set out to investigate was how scalable and accurate of a classification model could be made given these limitations. The second was the type of user data used in classification.