Group Dynamics on Reddit

Partner: Daniel Stein, UC Berkeley, Academic

Overview

Project Description

I downloaded 10 years of Reddit data (metadata and content). I am looking to clean the data and run some statistical models to examine what predicts group commitment (i.e., commitment to subreddit). The team would help me:

1. Efficiently clean the massive dataset
2. Fit statistical models to test theoretically-derived predictions
3. Visualize the results. Expertise in NLP is a plus because we have the actual word content.

Expected Deliverable

Cleaned dataset, fitted models, visualizations

What would a successful semester look like to you?

Interested undergraduates learn about the cycle of a social science research project and some preliminary results on the Reddit project.

Additional Skills from ideal candidate

Interest in psychology research is a plus.

Data

Models

Conclusion