Reddit Place Community Canvas Posts and Comments

Featuring the written history of the /r/Place community canvas event on Reddit, consisting of posts and comments. It was created by SocialGrep and last updated in July 2022.

Use Cases

• Analyze comment and post text to study community coordination and conflict during the canvas event.
• Perform temporal analysis on post timestamps to map phases of collaborative art creation and vandalism.
• Apply NLP techniques to comment text to identify key themes, sentiment, and user roles in the /r/Place phenomenon.

Strengths

• Data originates from a documented, large-scale social experiment on Reddit.
• Includes text data from both posts and comments, capturing user interactions.
• Last updated in July 2022, providing a snapshot shortly after the event concluded.

Limitations

• The specific number of rows, columns, and file size are unknown.
• Data is monolingual (English), limiting analysis of non-English speaking communities.
• The dataset is static and does not reflect activity after July 2022.

Provenance

Source

SocialGrep via Hugging Face.

Collection Method

Scraped or collected from the Reddit /r/Place community.

Time Range

Covers the duration of the /r/Place event(s) up to July 2022.

Freshness

Last updated 2022-07-01.

Geography

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