Locating All the Christmas Trees on Instagram
I downloaded hundreds of thousands of #tree images and found 25,432 images which were taken on Christmas, have a #tree, and, most importantly, contain location data where the photo was taken.
Web & Social Media
A Statistical Analysis of 142 Million Reddit Submissions
I constructed a database to store all Reddit Submissions from November 2007 to the end of October 2014: 142,159,793 submissions in total. And this data is very curious and very, very memetic.
The Quality, Popularity, and Negativity of 5.6 Million Hacker News Comments
Hopefully, these comments will answer whether Hacker News is experiencing a rise in quality, or if the complaints levied against HN are valid.
The Data From Our Comments to the FCC About Net Neutrality
The FCC released a dataset of about 450,000 comments against net neutrality. Looking at the data behind these comments, it is clear to see that the entire country is passionate against the rule changes to net neutrality.
The Wikipedia Entries Which Are Most-Edited by Members of the U.S. Congress
Saying that the results were surprising would be the understatement of the century.