SM Analysis

Predicting Private Details Lindamood et al. 09 &

Heatherly et al. 09

• Attempt to predict the value of the political affiliation attribute

• Three Inference Methods used as the local classifier
• Relaxation labeling used as the Collective Inference method
Removing Details Lindamood et al. 09 &
Heatherly et al. 09

• Ensures that no ‘false’ information is added to the

network, all details in the released graph were
entered by the user
• Details that have the highest global probability of
indicating political affiliation removed from the
network
Removing Links Lindamood et al. 09 &
Heatherly et al. 09

• Ensures that the link structure of the released

graph is a subset of the original graph
• Removes links from each node that are the most
like the current node
 Lindamood et al. 09 &

MostTraitLiberal Traits
Heatherly et al. 09

Name Trait Value Weight Liberal

Group legalize same sex marriage 46.16066789

Group every time i find out a cute 39.68599463

boy is conservative a little
part of me dies
Group equal rights for gays 33.83786875
Group the democratic party 32.12011605
Group not a bush fan 31.95260895
Group people who cannot 30.80812425
understand people who
voted for bush
Group government religion 29.98977927
disaster
 Most Conservative Traits Lindamood et al. 09 &
Heatherly et al. 09

Trait Name Trait Value Weight Conservative

Group george w bush is my 45.88831329
homeboy
Group college republicans 40.51122488
Group texas conservatives 32.23171423
Group bears for bush 30.86484689
Group kerry is a fairy 28.50250433
Group aggie republicans 27.64720818
Group keep facebook clean 23.653477
Group i voted for bush 23.43173116
Group protect marriage one man 21.60830487
one woman
Most Liberal Traits per Trait Name Lindamood et al. 09 &
Heatherly et al. 09

Trait Name Trait Value Weight Liberal

activities amnesty international 4.659100601
Employer hot topic 2.753844959
favorite tv shows queer as folk 9.762900035
grad school computer science 1.698146579
hometown mumbai 3.566007713
Relationship Status in an open relationship 1.617950632
religious views agnostic 3.15756412
looking for whatever i can get 1.703651985