Research Associate, Network Analysis, Social Media and Programming
Have you ever used Reddit for learning a programming language? There are many subreddit detected to specific programming languages. They are great for finding project ideas, learning new topics and getting inspired. Many (if not most) programming subreddits have an active community of users who are willing to provide support to others who post submissions … Read more
In the previous blog post , we learned how to use PRAW to scrape and process data from Reddit. We finished off by looking at how to collect top-level comments from a post submission and briefly mentioned how to collect replies. However, due to the complexity of modelling nested replies, I thought it would be … Read more
If you’re a nerd like me, you’ll probably be very familiar with Reddit . Reddit describes itself as “the front page of the internet” which is certainly true for me and many others. I use it pretty much on a daily basis. Anything from tech news digest, to niche topics and to tech support. There’s … Read more