epsalt / reddit-c19-analysis

Visualizing COVID-19 discussion on local subreddits with word2vec

COVID-19 Discussion in Albertan Subreddits

This project uses data from the /r/calgary, /r/edmonton, and /r/alberta subreddits to visualize discussion of topics related to COVID-19 over time. View a notebook explaining the analysis and exploring the results on nbviewer.

Label	Date	Event
A	2020-01-15	Canada's first case
B	2020-03-05	Alberta's first case
C	2020-03-17	Canada Declares Public Health Emergency

Running the notebook interactively

To run the notebook locally, follow these steps:

# Clone the repo
$ git clone https://github.com/epsalt/reddit-c19-analysis
$ cd reddit-c19-analysis

# Install dependencies
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

# Download comment data
$ curl https://alberta-reddit-data.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/coms.jsonl.gz -o coms.jsonl.gz
$ gunzip -d coms.jsonl.gz -c > data/coms.jsonl

# Or use `pushshift.py` to request data from the pushshift API 
# - Requests are rate limited so this can take a while
# - Date ranges or subreddits can be changed in the source
$ python pushshift.py

# Run the notebook
$ jupyter notebook c19-reddit-alberta.ipynb