Quantifying the Clickbait and Linkbait in BuzzFeed Article Titles
You probably do not know that the 3 most interesting things I found will blow your mind.
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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.
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 Statistical Difference Between 1-Star and 5-Star Reviews on Yelp
It can be proven that language has a strong statistical effect on review ratings, but that is intuitive enough. How have review ratings changed?