/redditClimate

https://redditclimate.github.io/redditClimate/

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redditClimate

This was a project for the Climate Change Seminar (course 6.S898) at MIT. We set out to study the climate skepticism community on reddit. We performed a number of experiments which are explained in more detail in our writeup

Repo organization

  • Generated data goes in the data folder.
  • Generated figures are in the figures folder.
  • We provide lists of relevant subreddits in the subreddits folder.
  • util.py contains a bunch of helper functions
  • scrape_*.py generated lists of content
  • All other python scripts generate figures or summarial data