Identifying Non-Existent High Schools

Requirements Clarification & Assessment

1. Objective Understanding:

   • Determine the legitimacy of high schools listed on user profiles.
   • Identify and scale methods to detect non-existent or fake schools.

2. Scenario Clarification:

   • Fake School: A school that does not exist.
   • Fake Claim: A real school listed falsely by a user.

3. Business Goals:

   • Enhance platform reliability and trust.
   • Prevent misuse of the platform by users listing fake credentials.
   • Protect brand integrity and ensure user data accuracy.

4. Scope of the Problem:

   • Determine the proportion of legitimate schools on profiles.
   • Develop scalable methods for identifying fake schools.

5. Data Sources:

   • User profiles and their associated data.
   • Publicly accessible government databases of schools.
   • Social network data (friends, groups, events).

6. Constraints:

   • Privacy and ethical considerations.
   • Accuracy and scalability of the solution.
   • Availability and accessibility of external data sources.