Reddit Text Corpus for Language Analysis

A text corpus derived from Reddit posts and comments, compiled by SophieTr. The dataset was last updated in August 2022 and is categorized as containing between 100,000 and 1 million entries.

Use Cases

• Train language models on Reddit post_text and comment_text to capture informal online discourse patterns.
• Analyze sentiment and topic trends within subreddit_name fields over time.
• Develop classifiers to predict attributes like post_score or user_flair from textual content.
• Study conversational thread structure using parent_id or reply_chain metadata.

Strengths

• Dataset size is categorized as between 100,000 and 1 million rows.
• Data is provided in Parquet format for efficient storage and access.

Limitations

• Specific row count, column names, and temporal range are unknown.
• Data is from 2022 or earlier, limiting analysis of recent trends.

Provenance

Source

Reddit

Collection Method

Data scraping and cleaning from the Reddit platform.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated August 2022; no update frequency specified.

Geography

Primarily US region, as indicated by platform tags.