infoFromProfileClean: Get account-level information from profile scrapes for some...

In xhtai/heisenbrgr: Linking Accounts on Anonymous Marketplaces

Description

Profile scrapes data needs to contain the following variables:

• 'date': date that scrape was done, in UNIX time

• 'vendor_hash': unique identifier for seller account

• 'profileClean': scrape of profile page at that time

Usage

infoFromProfileClean(profileClean, userHashesOfInterest, startDate,
  endDate)

Arguments

profileClean	dataframe as described above
userHashesOfInterest	vendor_hashes for accounts that have feedback in timeframe of interest; can be generated by 'infoFromFeedback()'
startDate	string for start of time frame of interest, e.g. "2014-01-10"
endDate	string for end of time frame of interest (exclusive), e.g. "2014-01-15" means up to 1/14

Details

We first consider all scrapes within the start and end dates specified. If there are no scrapes available, we look at equal time periods before and after the dates of interest. For example, if we are interested in August 2014, and no scrapes are available then, we consider all scrapes in July-September 2014.

Account-level variables returned are:

• 'vendor_hash': unique identifier for seller account

• 'numProfileTokens': number of unique tokens from profile scrapes

• 'profileTokens': list item

Value

list containing 1. dataframe with vendor_hash and numProfileTokens, 2. 'profileTokens' list

Examples

## Not run: 
    profileCleanOut <- infoFromProfileClean(profileClean, out$vendorHashes,
    "2014-08-01", "2014-08-31")

## End(Not run)

xhtai/heisenbrgr documentation built on June 8, 2019, 9:30 a.m.