Statistical methods to detect gender peculiarities of communication in Vkontakte social network groups

Abstract

With this study we review and describe the main features of communication in social networks and perform methods of information grabbing from social network Vkontakte using programing language Pyhton. By creating a research corpus of 320,000 comments, which is divided into male and female, we used statistical methods to detect particularities between male and female communication within one group and compare communication in two different thematic groups.