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To get started:

Clone this repo (git clone ${the link you get when you click on the green button to the top right here})
Make sure you have Python 3 installed as well as pip3.
Install virtualenv: (pip3 install virtualenv)
Create a new Python3 virtual environment (virtualenv $path_to_your_environment): for example, virtualenv ~/alyssa/my_env)
Activate your virtual environment (source $path_to_your_environment/bin/activate): for example, source ~/alyssa/my_env/bin/activate)
Install requirements in your virtual environment (pip3 install -r requirements.txt)

Loosely based off of this tutorial, with expansions.
To start off, make a reddit account if you don't have one.
Navigate to the apps console (follow the tutorial linked above) to create your very own app.
Put your credentials in the appropriate places in creds.yaml. This ensures that you won't upload your credentials to Git accidentally!
Choose a subreddit to explore! Put its name in the appropriate place in example.py.
Add the search term. Remember, | means OR and & means AND!
Run example.py and collect some data! This might take a while.
You can decrease the number of days you're looking at (last line of example.py) if you're in a hurry.
For instructions on how to get something to run on your computer without you jiggling the mouse every so often, try this
In another window, activate your virtual environment you created previously. Launch a jupyter notebook server (jupyter notebook).
In this repo, we've provided a sample data pickle file with usernames hashed for privacy; feel free to use this to play around! It contains 365 days of /r/legaladvice's mentions of any FAANG company (Facebook/Amazon/Apple/Netflix/Google).
Take a look at dataviz.ipynb and explore the examples. What do you want to know about your data?