onurvarol

Hi! I'm Onur Varol.

I am an Assistant Professor at the Sabanci University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences and Principal Investigator at the VIRAL Lab. His research focuses on developing techniques to analyze online behaviors to improve individual well-being and address societal problems using online data.

I developed Botometer to detect social bots 🤖 on Twitter.

You can check out some other websites that I created to share my hobbies and interests

onurvarol

import os, sys
import json
import uuid
import urllib2
from selenium.webdriver import Firefox#, PhantomJS
import selenium as sl

LIST_APP_PAGE = 'https://apps.twitter.com/app'
LOGIN_BEFORE_APP_PAGE = 'https://twitter.com/login?redirect_after_login=https%3A/apps.twitter.com/app'

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def parse_codebook_data(fname):
    fNames = dict()
    with open(fname, 'r') as fl:
        lstate = False
        for line in fl:
            if line.startswith('-----'):
                lstate = True
            else:
                if lstate:
                    while '  ' in line:

onurvarol

Verifying that +onur is my openname (Bitcoin username). https://onename.com/onur

onurvarol

import os, sys
import subprocess, signal
import time 

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import selenium as sl
from selenium.webdriver import Firefox, FirefoxProfile

URL = 'https://www.usefulservice.com/'

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'''
Question from Fil:
Centrality challenge: today as I was teaching about closeness 
and betweenness centrality in class, a student asked for an 
example of a network where the node with highest closeness 
centrality is not also the one with highest betweenness. I 
could not think of a simple example. Anyone?
'''

import networkx as nx