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Understanding the Behavioral Differences Between American and German Users: A Data-Driven Study

Chenxi Yang, Yang Chen( ), Qingyuan Gong, Xinlei He, Yu Xiao, Yuhuan Huang, Xiaoming Fu
School of Computer Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China, and the Engineering Research Center of Cyber Security Auditing and Monitoring, Ministry of Education, Shanghai 200433, China.
Department of Communications and Networking, Aalto University, 02150 Espoo, Finland.
Faculty of European Languages and Cultures, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou 510420, China.
Institute of Computer Science, University of Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.
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Abstract

Given that the USA and Germany are the most populous countries in North America and Western Europe, understanding the behavioral differences between American and German users of online social networks is essential. In this work, we conduct a data-driven study based on the Yelp Open Dataset. We demonstrate the behavioral characteristics of both American and German users from different aspects, i.e., social connectivity, review styles, and spatiotemporal patterns. In addition, we construct a classification model to accurately recognize American and German users according to the behavioral data. Our model achieves high classification performance with an F1-score of 0.891 and AUC of 0.949.

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behavioral differenceonline social networksYelpmachine learning

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Big Data Mining and Analytics
Volume 1 Issue 4,
December 2018
Pages 284-296
DOI: 10.26599/BDMA.2018.9020024
Cite this article:
Yang C, Chen Y, Gong Q, et al. Understanding the Behavioral Differences Between American and German Users: A Data-Driven Study. Big Data Mining and Analytics, 2018, 1(4): 284-296. https://doi.org/10.26599/BDMA.2018.9020024

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Received: 05 March 2018
Accepted: 20 March 2018
Published: 02 July 2018
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