Clustering in Aggregated User Profiles across Multiple Social Networks

International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE)
Vol. 7, No. 6, December 2017, pp. 3692~3699
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Clustering in Aggregated User Profiles across Multiple Social
Networks
Charu Virmani1
, Anuradha Pillai2
, Dimple Juneja3
1
Research Scholar, Ymca University of Science and Technology, Faridabad
2
Department of Computer Science, Ymca University of Science and Technology, Faridabad
3
Department of Computer Application, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra
Article Info ABSTRACT
Article history:
Received Apr 18, 2017
Revised May 30, 2017
Accepted Jun 15, 2017
A social network is indeed an abstraction of related groups interacting
amongst themselves to develop relationships. However, toanalyze any
relationships and psychology behind it, clustering plays a vital role.
Clustering enhances the predictability and discoveryof like mindedness
amongst users. This article’s goal exploits the technique of Ensemble K-
means clusters to extract the entities and their corresponding interestsas per
the skills and location by aggregating user profiles across the multiple online
social networks. The proposed ensemble clustering utilizes known K-means
algorithm to improve results for the aggregated user profiles across multiple
social networks. The approach produces an ensemble similarity measure and
provides 70% better results than taking a fixed value of K or guessing a value
of K while not altering the clustering method. This paper states that good
ensembles clusters can be spawned to envisage the discoverability of a user
for a particular interest.
Keyword:
Clustering,
Ensemble cluster
K-Means
Social network
Copyright © 2017Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science.
All rights reserved.
Corresponding Author:
Charu Virmani,
Associate Professor
Deparment of computer Science and Engineering
Faculty of Engineering and Technology
Manav Rachna International University
Email: charu.fet@mriu.edu.in
1. INTRODUCTION
As the number of social network users increases, a tremendous amount of data is generated by the
sharing of information. The intuitive nature of these social networks is the creation of related groups (or
clusters) [1]. This has become an area of interest in the discovery of communities in recent times. These
patterns are used to mine a variety of information, which is then used in various fields [2]. Cluster analysis,
or clustering in a social network context, is the grouping of a set of data objects (for example, friends,
connections, communities, or personal information) in such a way that objects in the same group (or clusters)
are more similar to each other than to those in other groups (or clusters). The identification of these patterns
into clusters has numerous applications in the field of data science.
Many algorithms can be used to cluster data [3]. Populaar clusters include groups with small
distances between cluster members, dense areas of the data space, intervals, or particular statistical
distribution [4]. Therefore, clustering can be formulated as a multi-objective optimization problem. A
suitable clustering algorithm and parameter settings vary from the individual input and expected results.
Numerous attempts were made to improve the quality of clusters using ensembling techniques [5] [6] [7] [8]
[9] [10] [11] [12]. The main concern of many of these algorithms is to elucidate label correspondence
problem. The limitation of many of these algorithms is the assumption of the same number of cluster in each
partition and may perform poorly when the information about output cluster is not known in advance.

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Literature pertaining to clustering on aggregated publicly-available user profile data of various
social networks was thoroughly dwelled and it was discovered that k-means algorithm and ensemble
clustering are the most popular algorithms to cluster the data to obtain results The study thus aims to apply k-
means clustering on aggregated social network data and ensemble clusters thus formed by grouping different
parameters and interpret results. In this work, the partitions are generated with varying number of clusters
and thus improving the quality and stability of the consensus partition. Good ensemble cluster are provided
by eliminating the dependency of the input parameter like k, the number of clusters. Hungarian algorithm
[13] and cumulative voting scheme [14] are used to obtain final clusters. The paper offers two-fold
contribution i.e. identifying the skill of a user for particular location across multiple social networks and
eliminating the dependency of input parameter like K. The current work uniquely contributes to the limitation
of the requirement of equal number of cluster in input partition and the knowledge of the number of clusters
to be known in advance.
This paper is structured into five sections: Section 2 throws light on the work of eminent researchers
highlighting their substantial contributions. The discussion in section 2 indicates the limitations of k means
algorithm. The current work thus finds motivation and resolves the challenge listed above. Section 3 uniquely
contributes an ensemble cluster to identify groups of clusters on a measure of similarity. This has been
established with a data set in the evaluation section given in section 4. Section 5 finally concludes.
2. RELATED WORK
Traditionally, social network clustering is either hierarchical or partitioning where vertices join into
groups of similarity [15]. Community detection in social networks has been an interest for which a successful
algorithm is depicted in [16] [17] [18] [19]. As one of the simplest unsupervised clustering techniques, k-
means discovers the degree of similarity among k groups assuming k centroids. K-centers are defined and
placed spatially as far as possible. Each spatial point is marked to a given data set and associated to the
nearest center. New centroids are calculated as barycenter of the clusters and rebounded between same data
set points to the nearest new center. Thus, k centers change its location aiming at minimizing an objective
function known as squared error function [] by:
J(V) = ∑ ∑ (||xi−vj||)2ci
j=1
c
i=1 (1)
where
||xi - vj|| is the Euclidean distance between xi and vj.
ci is the number of data points in ith cluster.
c is the number of cluster centers.
The emerging field of social analysis uses data mining as the key input for analyzing data.
Clustering is an important factor in this analysis. It is approached by various clustering algorithms, including:
k-means, fuzzy c-mean, and table modeling [20] [21]. While k-means is very fast, its center value depends on
the value of k. Different values of k will result in different clusters [22] [23]. Yang et al [24] observed that
the K-means learning algorithm requires specification of the number of cluster centers. If two highly-
overlapping data exist, then k-means will not be able to resolve the presence of two clusters and also it is not
invariant to non-linear transformations.
Zhang et al [4] proposed the mapping of network nodes to identify the overlapping community by
Euclidean space and fuzzy c-means clustering. Many researchers have sought community in social networks,
as well as proposed metrics for evaluating the structure [25] [26] [27] [28]. Yang et al [24] proposed finding
people by using mobile phone usage patterns in a social network. Another researcher proposed a hybrid study
to retain customers using clustering [28]. The authors used aggregated data on user profiles from various
social networks. With variance clustering, they used k-means and ensemble clustering to group users as per
their public information. The study was restricted to cluster the user of a location who has interest in a
specific skill. Businesses and marketing strategies can also use this technique for promotional benefits by
applying it to other attributes to find user similarities.
Numerous techniques for generating cluster results and combining them have been seen in literature
[5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]. Generation of input partition followed by integration of all the partitions to
obtain final partition is a two way process given by vega-pons et al. [29]. Median partition and object co-
occurrence are thw two ways to generate a consensus.In median partition, the final partition maximizes the
similarity with all the generated set in the ensemble. This approach is not considered for clustering as
defining the Mirkin Distance [30] have been proven NP-hard and computationally expensive. Object-
cooccurrence is another approach that obtains the final partition from the generation set depending upon the
frequency of occurrence of object together or an object to one cluster followed by similarity based clustering

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algorithm. Co-association Matrix followed by clustering mechanism is a way to generate the occurrence of an
object. Relabelling and cummulative voting is another choice for attaining the final partition from the
generation set depending upon the frequency of occurrence of objects. Relabelling solve label
correspondence problem using Hungarian Algorithm [13] following voting process by using cumulative
voting [14] to obtain final partition. Other final partitions can be obtained by Genetic algorithm [30], NMF
[31] and kernel Method [32] under object co-occurrence that is beyond the consideration of this paper.
It has been observed during the research that no work has been devoted to applying ensemble
clustering methods in analyzing a user’s publicly available information. However, different strategies have
been utilized to recognize community and merge community structures [33]. As data clustering and
community detection are very comparative, it ought to be conceivable to merge community in an
indistinguishable way from ensembles of clusters with great outcomes. The proposed algorithm performed
clustering on aggregated user profiles from various social networks by changing the value of k for different
parameters. Then, partitions were combined to overcome cluster instability.
3. PROPOSED WORK
A people group or community is a subset of hubs inside a system such that associations between
hubs in the subset are denser than associations with rest of the system. Detecting a community is a form of
clustering of the information which is similar among neighbors. The aim of this section is to propose method
for combining several clusters and generalize this for the user’s information. The proposed strategy creates a
new feature space utilizing the yields of initial k means algorithm. The phases of the proposed methodology
are:
1. Generate Initial clusters using K-means for varying value of k.
2. Generate new components by Hungarian algorithm.
3. Ensemble final clusters on the new generated components.
Unsupervised training is used to partition data on the basis of similarity using k-means. More similar
users are grouped into a cluster using Euclidean distance in this technique across all the profiles aggregated
by the network. This results in a cluster belonging to a particular location. A particular skill will be found and
applied for that location. However, a weighted Euclidean distance is used to cluster the data of more similar
belonging to location and skill. A weight was assigned to one parameter and group; the user was assigned
based on a different parameter. For mining the skill from the user-generated post, the post extracted is
cleaned and converted into a key pair. The pair includes the post ID (or user name) and the post’s list of
words serving as the skills list that the user applies in the post. The list is converted into a numerical vector;
weights are determined using soft TF-IDF.
K-means clustering models are applied on the converted list where k = 3 to 12 for skill and by-
variance clusters for skill and location to generate input partitons.These techniques are applied separately on
the different variables, thus resulting partitions into different number of clusters. The results of clusters are
then combined using Hungarian algorithm and cumulative voting for each cluster. Hungarian algorithm is a
multi-objective clustering comprising of multiple clustering partitions with objective functions. It ensembles
multiple partitions by combining individual clustering partition and giving a final partition. Final partitions of
clusters can be found by applying the voting scheme [16]. Confusion matrix is used to compoute the
similarity between clusters. To compute the confusion matrix of two different number of cluster, the
remaining cluster of the smaller number of cluster will be kept as empty. Confusion matrix for two clusters
(A,B) is of size AxB. The (i,j) th index of the matrix corresponds to the object that are in cluster i of A and in
cluster j of B. Maximum element is selected using Hungarian Algorithm. Integration of Element is done by
aggregating the aligned partitions by selecting the element that takes the majority cluster label for each
observed partition.Majority Voting and plurality voting are the mathods to generate the final clusters that
involves selecting an object whose count is greater than a threshold value whereas plurality voting considers
the majority cluster label for each observed value.The proposed algorithm is shoum in Algorithm 1.

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Algorithm 1
1. Pass the entire dataset and identify the point with the weight assigned to it.
2. Compare the objects and consider it as per k (k = 3 to 12).
3. Check the similarity and calculate the mean value from each centroid to the cluster for the object.
4. Each object may reside in the cluster it wins the similarity.
5. Repeat steps 2 to 4 if there is no change.
6. Repeat step for another value of k until K=12
7. Compute confusion matrix based on multiple data partitions from step 5.
8. Find its maximum element, associate the two cluster as per the maximum object. Thus, reduce the
matrix upon removal of these clusters.
Error rate, Jacard Index and RAND index are considered to measure the quality of clusters. Error
rate depicts the average number of misclassified elements. Partitions are more similar if the error rate is less.
Error rate is used to validate the accuracy of the final partition. RAND [34] proposes a measure to validate
the quality of the cluster as:
r(A, B) =
x+y
x+y+z+w
(2)
Where:
U: set of n clusters
A: partition in U having r subsets
B: partition in U having q subsets
x: number of pair of elements from U which occur in A and B
y: number of pairs of elements from U which are different in A and B
z: number of pair of elements from U which occur in A but not in B
w: number of pair of elements from U which occur in B but not in A
The Jacard index [35] to measure the similarityis computed as:
J(A, B) =
y
y+z+w
(3)
4. RESULT AND DISCUSSION
Various social networks are crawled to create raw data on user profile information, including: name,
description, location, interests and tweets/news feed. The collected data was aggregated on the vector<User
ID, name>. This set of raw data is created in MongoDB. To create enriched data, the data was cleaned for
noise removal and stored in the json documents. The proposed clustering algorithm was applied to the data to
create desired clusters. Figure 1 shows the architecture for visualizing user information.
Figure 1. Architecture

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Twitter public search and Bing search API acts as the source of data collection. While Twitter
search outputs relevant user-generated posts when searched with an input query. The Bing search API
allowed creating the mixed inputs of user-variables. For example, user-name + user-location + user-gender +
user-description-keywords. This user information is used to extract information from other social networks
like Full Connect, Google, and Bing by crawling or using api’s of the respective networks. Total 27,956 user
profiles extracted; complete data consisted of 45,899 user-generated posts. The data is cleaned i.e. white
spaces, stopwords, and common terms (i.e., a, an, and the) are removed and converted into lowercase. User
profiles were aggregated by matching user ID and name (public attributes using Jaro-wrinkler). Out of
27,956 user profiles, 18,897 user profiles are aggregated. The complete data statistics is shown in table 1 and
the pseudo code to aggregate the profile is depicted in algorithm 2.
Table 1. Statistics of input data
# Input Queries 12
# Raw Documents 27,956
# unique users – Twitter 15,530
# users - Enriched Profile 18,897
# search engine total links 56,896
# search engine user links 21,674
Algorithm 2: Profile Aggregation
1. Initialize Doc1 <- Source1 Raw Document
2. Initialize Doc2 <- Source2 Raw Document
3. Initialize DocN<- SourceN Raw Document
4. Initialize Pairs <- cartesian_pairs of all documents
a. Pairs <- N*N documents
5. Iterate in every Pair
a. Rel_var1 <- one of the relevant variable ex – name
b.threshold_score<-Jaro_wrinkler(rel_var1, pair)
c. If score >threshold_score: merge_enrich(rel_var1, pair)
d. else : pass & ignore
6. Update for every pair
a. Pick or replace rel_var values accn to priority.
4.1. Skill Wise Clusters of Keywords by Users
The system has chosen value of k varying from 3 to 12 to generate the partitions, first experiment is
carried by passing value of k as 3 resulting in three clusters for each of the 12 queries: Node, NLP, Java,
machine learning, database, Python, javascript, big data, deep learning, SQL, Hadoop and Datascience. These
models identify repeating patterns in data and organize them into buckets known or “data clusters” and are
depicted in table 2. Similar results are obtained from k-mean clustering varying k from 4 to 12. Hence, the
similar results are omitted.
Table 2. K-means clusters for k = 3 for the three skills
database 2210
Top terms per cluster: database
Cluster 0: job administrator sql hire database server derby oracle dba disk
Cluster 1: http tungsten dac useful ejnetwork online delete 8i load server
Cluster 2: database sql look dbmnosql 9i sanction opm expect db2
javascript 22446
Top terms per cluster: javascript
Cluster 0: javascriptinspirateebooknjavascriptkomopensourcedisponibleesta
Cluster 1: javascript developer devops job library jquery know use linux design
Cluster 2: ncertificationdmoz webmaster leazysunnyphpjavascriptjavascriptdfranformvalidation
datascience 3636
Top terms per cluster: datascience
Cluster 0: datascience data bigdatamachinelearning analytics iot python business statistic learn
Cluster 1: bigdata cancer beat use artificialintelligencedeeplearningdatascienceiotchatbotfintech
Cluster 2: ronaldvanloon learn machine team mix expert right engineer know

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For input queries, user’s information is collected and differentiated on the basis of interest and
location. Data was collected for three different locations United Kingdom, United States and London. It was
analyzed on the basis of java, nlp, Python, javascript, etc. Different parameters are analyzed to the model via
k-means clustering on the data set (documents related to user-skills and user-level variables such as location,
descriptions, etc.).
In order to identify that the user of a particular location has a particular skill, an approach must be
found to identify the skill set of the user of the particular location. The particular location cluster can be
created through the k-means algorithm because of its quick convergence to similarity. The skill cluster should
define the boundaries of the skill set; this ends in a complex task. To obtain the skill set of the user, one needs
to know the interest from the interest attribute (if available from the social network), as well as the user-
generated post to mine information for the particular skill. In this study, clusters were obtained for k = 3 to 12
on skill wise user public data collected from various social networks. K partitions are generated optimally
representing M partitions by voting scheme to generate a skilled public group for that particular location. The
detailed algorithm is shown in algorithm 1.
Input partitions to the confusion matrix are the clusters obtained from the previously discussed k-
means (i.e., k = 3 to 12). In this phase, the clustering results are combined and best clusters by is chosen by
computing similarity measure using confusion matrix and voting scheme. Figure 2 represents number of user
specialized in skill for different location analyzed from the partitions. Table 3 shows the top five terms of
each cluster by combining the results for a particular location London.
Figure 2. Count of user for different skills for differentlocation
Table 3. Top five clusters
DataScience Javascript Database
machinelearning Jquery Database
datascience Formvalidation Nosql
Bigdata Nodejs Sql
deeplearning Library Mongodb
analytics Reactjs Pymongo
It has been observed that the results produced by ensemble clustering is 70% better than that can be
produced by guessing value of k or taking a fixed value of k.Th e complexity of k-means is O(KNId) where k
belongs to number of clusters, N belongs to number of samples, I belongs to iterations of k means to
converge and d belongto number of components. The complexity of proposed ensemble cluster is O(k3
). The
comparison between K-means and ensemble K-means clustering was evaluated using error rate, Jacard index
and RAND score which is an extent to evaluate cluster quality as shown in table 4.
Table 4. similarity between k-means and Ensemble K-means
Data set Method Error rate Jacard Index RAND score
Aggregated user’s public information K-means 45 0.49 0.68
Aggregated user’s public information Ensemble K-means 15 0.97 0.95
0
100
200
300
400
NoofUsers
Location
Data Science
JavaScript
Database

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5. CONCLUSION AND SCOPE OF FURTHER RESEARCH
This article analyzed two clustering algorithms in the context of clustering social network data when
collected from different social networks. It has been reported that it is possible to detect community using
ensemble t. This paper proves that the ensemble K-means clustering produces better results in term of error
rate, RAND score and Jacard index. This opens up the scope of further research in regards to efficient use for
business and marketing strategies
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