Beyond Medical Records: Unveiling the Endometriosis Storytelling on Reddit This research navigates the intricate landscape of endometriosis discussions on reddit through application of sentiment analysis and topic modeling methodologies. Embracing the spectrum of emotions majorly ’negative,’ ’positive’ and ’fear’, we unveil expressions of struggles within the community. Our investigation extends to topic modeling, revealing five pivotal topics converging into three overarching classes. We use coherence scores as a means of evaluating the topic models created and finally discuss the major themes found within different topics. To validate our findings further, we compare the results to the existing research work in this field. Despite of its challenges, this study propels understanding, offering insights into shared experiences and paving the way for more in- clusive health-related discourse and raising awareness about the same.
Reddit posts with subreddit tag r/endometriosis will be utilized for this research (spanned over a period of 2-3 years). The data will be scraped using PRAW (Python Reddit API Wrapper). This data would then be cleaned and pre-processed.