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The document summarizes a research paper about location-based privacy on Foursquare. The paper analyzed user data from Foursquare like check-ins, tips, mayorships and dones to study user habits and predict personal attributes. It found that metrics like tips, mayorships and dones had skewed distributions across cities and could help infer user attributes like home country and city with high accuracy.

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Week 9 Assignment 1

The document summarizes a research paper about location-based privacy on Foursquare. The paper analyzed user data from Foursquare like check-ins, tips, mayorships and dones to study user habits and predict personal attributes. It found that metrics like tips, mayorships and dones had skewed distributions across cities and could help infer user attributes like home country and city with high accuracy.

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Unit 10 - Research
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The due date for submitting this assignment has passed. Due on 2017-09-30, 23:59 IST.
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Welcome to 1) As discussed in the lectures, which is the most preferred privacy settings of 1 point
PSOSM class individuals for their location information?

Introduction to Only me
Social Media API Friends
Friends of friends
Misinformation
and Privacy Everyone
No, the answer is incorrect.
Privacy and Score: 0
Pictures on
Online Social Accepted Answers:
Media Everyone

Policing and For the questions 2 to 12, go through the following paper
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2) Which of the following is the fundamental information of Foursquare? 1 point
E-crime and
social media
Followers
Social media and Connections
ecrime Friends
Locations
Identity
resolution and No, the answer is incorrect.
social media Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Research
papers: Location Locations
based Privacy
3) Which of the following information is NOT publicly available on Foursquare by 1 point
Week 9.1: default?
Privacy in
Location Based Tips
Social Networks
Dones
Part 1
Mayorships
Week 9.2:
Check ins
Privacy in
Location Based No, the answer is incorrect.
Social Networks
Score: 0
Part 2
Accepted Answers:
Tutorial 7:
Visualization -
Check ins
Highcharts

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Quiz : Week 9 - 4) What does a mayorship at a specific venue means? 1 point


Assignment 1
The user is a frequent visitor of that venue
Solutions to
Week 9
A prior visit or intention to checking out the place in the future
Assignment The user owns the place
Feedback for Both A and B
week 9
No, the answer is incorrect.
Research Papers Score: 0
Part - II Accepted Answers:
The user is a frequent visitor of that venue
Week 11:
Summary 5) Check ins are more useful than tips to reveal user habits and personal interests. 1 point
This statement is:

True
False
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
False
6) The paper found that most mayorships were concentrated in: 1 point

North America
Southeast Asia
Western Europe
Eastern Europe
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Southeast Asia
7) Which are the top three cities in number of tips? 1 point

Delhi, Bandung, Singapore


Las Vegas, New York, Zurich
New York, Jakarta and Sao Paulo
Chicago, San Francisco, Paris
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
New York, Jakarta and Sao Paulo
8) What kind of distributions of numbers of mayorships, tips and dones per city 1 point
was observed in the paper?

Skewed Distribution
Normal Distribution
Chi-squared distribution
None of the above
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Skewed Distribution
9) Which feature/set of features gave maximum accuracy in inferring Home 1 point
Country?

Mayorships+Tips
Dones only
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Mayorships+Dones
Tips only
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Tips only
10)Which model the authors regarded as best to predict home city, keeping into 1 point
consideration actual number of users for which each model was able to correctly predict
the home city?

Mayorship
Mayorship+Tip
Dones+Mayorship
Mayorship+Tip+Done
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Mayorship+Tip+Done
11)Dones were found to be concentrated in which country? 1 point

United States
France
India
Australia
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
United States
12)Which of the following is true about user behavior on Foursquare according to 1 point
the paper?

There is high correlation between the number of mayorships and the number of
tips across cities
There is no correlation between the number of mayorships and the number of
dones across cities
The distribution of the time between consecutive tips and dones tends to peak at
multiples of 24
The distribution of the time between consecutive tips and dones shows no periodic
trend
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
There is high correlation between the number of mayorships and the number of tips across
cities
The distribution of the time between consecutive tips and dones tends to peak at multiples of
24
13)Imagine you are vacationing in Kerala, and your service provider relays ‘phone 1 point
switched off’ messages to the people who call you in Malayalam. Which of your following
four kinds of privacy does this violate?

Information
Communication
Bodily
Territorial

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No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Information
14)Say you went to Saravana Bhavan and really liked the food there. You want to 1 point
recommend it to people on Foursquare. Which of its following features will you use?

Done
Tip
Check-in
To-do
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Tip
Study the plot carefully to answer questions 15 to 17. We show the cumulative
distribution of the distances between real and inferred users’ residence location for
three social networks - Foursquare, Twitter and Google+. The inner graph is a zoom-in
of the outer one.

15)In case of Twitter which of the following statements is true? 1 point

The proposed model inferred exactly the user residence location for 35.41% of the
inferences
The proposed model inferred the user residence location for 35.41% of the users’
with 0 probability
73.67% of the inferences are in a radius greater than 20 km
None of the Above
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
The proposed model inferred exactly the user residence location for 35.41% of the
inferences
16)In case of Foursquare which of the following statements is true? 1 point

In a 20km radius, we are able to infer more number of user residence location
from Twitter than Foursquare
52.73% of the inferences are made in a radius smaller than 5 km
52.73% of the inferences are made in less than a 20 km radius
All of the Above
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0

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Accepted Answers:
52.73% of the inferences are made in a radius smaller than 5 km
17)Which of the following statements are true? 1 point

Twitter is the best social network to infer user residence location within 5 km
In Google+, we are not able to infer the exact residence location for any users
Distance errors are the highest for Twitter, followed by Foursquare and Google+
In Google+, we cannot infer location of the users unlike Foursquare
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Twitter is the best social network to infer user residence location within 5 km
18)Which of the following is a Python visualization library? 1 point

Requests
Highcharts
Twython
Urllib
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Highcharts
19)What does line ‘chart = Highchart()’ do in creating highcharts? 1 point

Creates a highchart with the name as chart


Creates a container where options and data for highcharts can be added
Doesn’t do anything, statement is not required
Creates highchart dictionary with the name as chart
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Creates a container where options and data for highcharts can be added
20)A bubble chart differs from a scatter plot because 1 point

It plots three-dimensional data, while a scatter plot plots two-dimensional data


It plots two-dimensional data, while a scatter plot plots three-dimensional data
It plots two-dimensional data, while a scatter plot plots one-dimensional data
It plots one-dimensional data, while a scatter plot plots two-dimensional data
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
It plots three-dimensional data, while a scatter plot plots two-dimensional data

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