CS2 Bot Census

Estimate the share of bot accounts in Counter-Strike 2 using public match and account data.

Objectives

• Collect a large sample of CS2 player accounts.
• Engineer behavioral and account-level features.
• Use rules + anomaly detection to estimate which accounts are likely bots.
• Publish:
  • A bot-rate estimate over the sample.
  • A dashboard to explore results.
  • A transparent methodology report.

Status

• Project spec
• Data source exploration
• Data ingestion pipeline
• Feature engineering
• Modeling + evaluation
• Dashboard deployment
• Final report

Environment

• Python 3.11+

• Copy the template env file:

  copy .env.example .env
  

• Then open .env and set:

  STEAM_API_KEY=your_real_steam_api_key_here