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Ümit Kaan Usta

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Intro

Hi, I'm Umit from Istanbul! Currently interning at Amazon where I build models to forecast, plan, and understand our supply chain - and a rising senior CS student at Marmara Uni.
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What I build

I build tools to understand human behavior with data science, specifically focusing on social networks, information diffusion, political information operations, and conflicts.
I'll also start contributing to Graph Theory / Social Network Analysis libraries with implementations of different algorithms from academic papers.

My goals

As a student, I will use the funds to get the needed data and computing power, and to secure time to contribute to Open Source. Particular goals are:

  • [ ] 3 Contributions to top Graph libraries (e.g. NetworkX) with algorithms from academic papers
  • [ ] Performance updates to reddit-detective
  • [ ] Campaigning to increase adoption for reddit-detective, the focus is on getting some news outlets to use it to track US Elections discussions and disinformation campaigns.
  • [ ] A project offering explainability to time-series models
  • [ ] A project modeling casualties in modern warfare to help researchers and journalists have a glimpse of what is actually happening in the field.
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For faster progress, and more time for Open Source

Featured work

  1. umitkaanusta/reddit-detective

    Play detective on Reddit: Discover political disinformation campaigns, secret influencers and more

    Python 211
  2. umitkaanusta/TIA

    Your Advanced Twitter stalking tool

    Jupyter Notebook 149
  3. umitkaanusta/Jomini

    Historical battle simulation package for Python

    Python 45
  4. umitkaanusta/FraudRingDetection-TrustNetworks-Trying-New-Approach

    Detecting fraud rings in a p2p trust network with high AUC score (better than 9 of 10 well-known algorithms)* using basic and intuitive trust metrics

    Jupyter Notebook 4

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