To run this (written for mac, commands should be similiar)
python3 -m venv env
source ./env/bin/activate
pip install spacy
python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
pip install csv
pip install pandas
pip install textblob
pip install matplotlib
RedditCrawl can be reused for any new subreddit, just change the filename.csv in TextSent
IMPORTANT: ADDITIONAL USE CASES can be added by uncommenting at the bottom
Reddit Seer that predicts the validity of user's predictions, as well as measuring the degree of a belief's radicalness.
Tool to scrape reddit comment text and compare user predictions of different entities against actualized data. Keep track of accurate users, and connect to real data. Huge implication: this is applicable to absolutely any subreddit which has some real life basis and isn’t self-contained
reddit/relationship_advice is overflowing with opinions about gender, which is data that can be compared to national abuse rates. reddit/stocks makes daily predictions, all of which can be profited from. One way or another, reddit is a mound of data waiting to be optimized. Reddit Seer has infinite potential for thousands of use cases, including politics, video games, public markets, etc.
