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Understanding & Predicting User Lifetime with Machine Learning in an Anonymous Location-Based Social Network

arXiv · · Notable

Summary

Researchers studied user lifetime prediction in the location-based social network Jodel within Saudi Arabia, leveraging its disjoint communities. Machine learning models, particularly Random Forest, were trained to predict user lifetime as a regression and classification problem. A single countrywide model generalizes well and performs similarly to community-specific models.

Keywords

user lifetime · prediction · Jodel · social network · Saudi Arabia

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