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Reddit: /r/worldnews (Submissions & Comments)

Analyzing Post Engagement

@kaggle.thedevastator_uncovering_public_opinion_on_world_events_throug

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About this Dataset

Reddit: /r/worldnews (Submissions & Comments)


Reddit: /r/worldnews (Submissions & Comments)

Analyzing Post Engagement

By Reddit [source]


About this dataset

This dataset offers insight into the ways that public opinion shapes the world news cycle. Gathering posts from various topics such as politics, current affairs, socio-economic issues, sports, entertainment and more from the subredditworldnews subreddit, this dataset provides engagement data from each post in order to analyze public sentiment. With columns including title, score, url, comms_num, created timestamp and body text for each post in the collection it is easy to assess discussion thread topics or dig deep into individual posts to ascertain what perspectives on world news have the most traction. From questions of foreign policy to environmental action and social movements it is possible with this tool analyse how these stories shape our global outlook

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Research Ideas

  • Looking at correlations between post engagement and the topics of the posts to better understand the most popular topics on world news.
  • Analyzing the differences in post engagement according to geographic regions to better understand what is trending in certain areas of the world.
  • Tracking changes in engagement over time as a way to assess public opinion about specific news cycles or events

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If you use this dataset in your research, please credit the original authors.
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License

License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) - Public Domain Dedication
No Copyright - You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. See Other Information.

Columns

File: worldnews.csv

Column name Description
title The title of the post. (String)
score The number of upvotes the post has received. (Integer)
url The URL of the post. (String)
comms_num The number of comments the post has received. (Integer)
created The date and time the post was created. (Datetime)
body The body of the post. (String)
timestamp The date and time the post was last updated. (Datetime)

Acknowledgements

If you use this dataset in your research, please credit the original authors.
If you use this dataset in your research, please credit Reddit.

Tables

Worldnews

@kaggle.thedevastator_uncovering_public_opinion_on_world_events_throug.worldnews
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  • 1871 rows
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CREATE TABLE worldnews (
  "title" VARCHAR,
  "score" BIGINT,
  "id" VARCHAR,
  "url" VARCHAR,
  "comms_num" BIGINT,
  "created" DOUBLE,
  "body" VARCHAR,
  "timestamp" TIMESTAMP
);

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