How to Create a Network Graph Visualization of Reddit Subreddits
There is very little discussion on how to gather the data for large-scale network graph visualizations, and how to make them. It is time to fix that.
There is very little discussion on how to gather the data for large-scale network graph visualizations, and how to make them. It is time to fix that.
If we can find out which topics Reddit users tend to upvote, we can identify what keywords are most attractive to the Reddit hivemind.
With Reddit data in BigQuery, quantifying all the hundreds of millions of Reddit submissions and comments is trivial.
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.