Email sherlock: Using Machine Learning to Extract Information from Large Email Dataset
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Email Sherlock identifies and analyzes clusters in large email datasets, which can be used to aid email-based investigations, and possibly, prevent similar cases, by identifying email that contains sensitive or classified information. This is the presentation I presented as my Final Project at Metis Career Day San Francisco. Please see the link above for slides and video presentation.
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Email sherlock: Using Machine Learning to Extract Information from Large Email Dataset
- 1. Email Sherlock: Using Machine Learning to Extract Information from Large Email Datasets Jay Gondin
- 2. Investigations and Emails ● Bear Stearns V. Lehman Brothers ● Enron ● Hillary Clinton
- 3. Data: Hillary’s Emails ● 30,320 emails in dataset ● 60,000 Meaningful Words ● Unique Acronyms ○ Ex. Hillary Clinton = Rodham, HRC, Madam Secretary ○ Ex. Obama = President, Administration, Barack ○ Ex. White House = WH
- 4. Email Pros and Cons ● Emails may contain crucial information to solve an investigation. ● Unique acronyms may help vectorize emails ● Emails within a particular dataset have a fewer number of authors ● Often find duplicated text ● A majority of emails do not contain important and/or relevant information to an investigation ● Unique acronyms may make it more difficult to complete searches ● Clusters of emails tend to overlap Pros Cons
- 5. Unsupervised Model TFidF - vectorizer LSA - reduce dimension DBSCAN - cluster Machine LearningSQLiteRaw Data Analyzed Clusters Key Info: - Orphan tend to be less important and/or were anonymized. - Dense clusters may contain more information - DBSCAN -- Density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise
- 6. Semi-Unsupervised Model & Query Expansion Benghazi Search Term Neural Network (word2vec) Tripoli Stevens Libyans Consulate Expanded Search Term Results (cluster) Flask WebApp & SQLite
- 7. Finding Connections: Benghazi Libyans ● Clusters are based on meaning.
- 9. Sentiment Analysis ● High Polarity may indicate sensitive information.
- 11. Future developments ● Generalize to other Datasets ● Adapt algorithm to prevent fraud ● Develop graphical visualization ● Record Users Activities to improve the software
- 12. Jay Gondin Masters in Mathematics Experienced Economic Analyst gondin@gmail.com github.com/jgondin linkedin.com/in/gondin