6.857 project about vandalism in wikipedia

sudo apt-get install redis-server
sudo pip install redis requests

Create a file feature_name.py, containing a function which takes info in a dictionary, and returns a numeric value (ex: see edited_article_user_num_edits.py)

def edit_feature_name(editinfo):

At top of wikipedia_requests.py, add:

from feature_name import *

./featuredata.py feature_name

Will make a file feature_name.csv containing the data. First run will take a while because all the data from Wikipedia will have to be fetched; subsequent runs will be faster because the data will be cached.

Or manually:

python
>>> from wikipedia_request import *
>>> feature_to_text(feature_name)

octave --silent plot_feature.m user_revision_count.csv

If you want to add a cutoff for making the feature a binary 1-0 value, add it as the last argument, ex:

octave --silent plot_feature.m user_revision_count.csv 50