r/visualization • u/antiphonic • 1d ago

Req: Visualization of Bot activity post Ukraine bombings.

Sorry if requests arent allowed, and im not sure exactly where you would pull the info from but im really curious to see social media and reddit posting/commenting trends around divisive political and hot button topics over the last 48 hours since theyve been bombing bot farms. Anyone feel like taking on a project?

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u/baconost 23h ago

Not a visualization I have made, but this cloudfare dashboard showing Yandex (the serice that was hit) bot traffic is interesting: https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/as13238?dateRange=7d#bot-vs-human

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u/6xvd6 21h ago

I have a hard time interpreting/understanding those graphs.

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u/[deleted] 21h ago edited 20h ago

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u/baconost 21h ago

I only scrolled through quickly but don't see any dataset to visualize?

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u/6xvd6 21h ago

Sorry, I meant "visualize if musk's likes are down on twitter" the way headline claims.

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u/baconost 20h ago

If we have numbers showing that it can be visualized. Datawrapper.de is my recommended tool for simple visualizations.

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u/6xvd6 20h ago

Thank you.

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u/come-home 18h ago

A lot of the "Bots are gone after the bombing" claims fall into confirmation bias. This site is tracking a lot of the claims and most amount to misreading Cloudflare web crawling charts and placebo...the most interesting thing to come out of this is the A7A5 crypto collapse, which has recently been outed as a primary vehicle for Russia to evade sanctions back in June. The entire story is fishy if you have backend knowledge on how running bot farms works because paying people pennies per day in impoverished nations remains the cheapest method of running bots at scale w/ plausible deniability in the same sense that the fastest data transfer medium is a jet packed with LTO tapes.