Reddit Cybersecurity Discussions with Themes and Sentiment, 2020-2025

Inside the Hive Mind is a text dataset of Reddit comments on cybersecurity topics from 2020 to 2025, created by S. M. Mahedy Hasan. It identifies frequently discussed themes, including password security, phishing, ransomware, AI-driven threats, and zero-trust security. The dataset also explores the distribution and evolution of sentiments and emotions across these topics over time.

Use Cases

• Track the evolution of public concern over emerging cybersecurity threats like ransomware and AI-driven attacks based on the described temporal analysis.
• Analyze sentiment and emotional tone (e.g., fear, concern) expressed in public discussions about traditional topics like password security and phishing.
• Identify the most prominent discussion themes in cybersecurity discourse on social media as mentioned in the description.
• Model shifts in public perception and thematic focus within cybersecurity from 2020 to 2025.

Strengths

• Covers a multi-year time range from 2020 to 2025, allowing for longitudinal analysis.
• Analyzes multiple dimensions: discussion themes, sentiment, and emotions, as described.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for broad reuse.

Limitations

• Row count and specific column structure are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect the bias inherent to discussions on the Reddit platform.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author S. M. Mahedy Hasan

Collection Method

Mined from Reddit users' comments on cybersecurity-related posts.

Time Range

2020 to 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-07 20:55:52; freshness should be verified.