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# Reddit Randomness Dataset |
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A dataset I created because I was curious about how "random" r/random really is. |
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This data was collected by sending `GET` requests to `https://www.reddit.com/r/random` for a few hours on September 19th, 2021. |
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I scraped a bit of metadata about the subreddits as well. |
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`randomness_12k_clean.csv` reports the random subreddits as they happened and `summary.csv` lists some metadata about each subreddit. |
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# The Data |
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## `randomness_12k_clean.csv` |
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This file serves as a record of the 12,055 successful results I got from r/random. |
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Each row represents one result. |
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### Fields |
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* `subreddit`: The name of the subreddit that the scraper recieved from r/random (`string`) |
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* `response_code`: HTTP response code the scraper recieved when it sent a `GET` request to /r/random (`int`, always `302`) |
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## `summary.csv` |
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As the name suggests, this file summarizes `randomness_12k_clean.csv` into the information that I cared about when I analyzed this data. |
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Each row represents one of the 3,679 unique subreddits and includes some stats about the subreddit as well as the number of times it appears in the results. |
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### Fields |
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* `subreddit`: The name of the subreddit (`string`, unique) |
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* `subscribers`: How many subscribers the subreddit had (`int`, max of `99_886`) |
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* `current_users`: How many users accessed the subreddit in the past 15 minutes (`int`, max of `999`) |
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* `creation_date`: Date that the subreddit was created (`YYYY-MM-DD` or `Error:PrivateSub` or `Error:Banned`) |
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* `date_accessed`: Date that I collected the values in `subscribers` and `current_users` (`YYYY-MM-DD`) |
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* `time_accessed_UTC`: Time that I collected the values in `subscribers` and `current_users`, reported in UTC+0 (`HH:MM:SS`) |
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* `appearances`: How many times the subreddit shows up in `randomness_12k_clean.csv` (`int`, max of `9`) |
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# Missing Values and Quirks |
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In the `summary.csv` file, there are three missing values. |
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After I collected the number of subscribers and the number of current users, I went back about a week later to collect the creation date of each subreddit. |
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In that week, three subreddits had been banned or taken private. I filled in the values with a descriptive string. |
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* SomethingWasWrong (`Error:PrivateSub`) |
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* HannahowoOnlyfans (`Error:Banned`) |
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* JanetGuzman (`Error:Banned`) |
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I think there are a few NSFW subreddits in the results, even though I only queried r/random and not r/randnsfw. |
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As a simple example, searching the data for "nsfw" shows that I got the subreddit r/nsfwanimegifs twice. |
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# License |
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This dataset is made available under the Open Database License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/. Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed under the Database Contents License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/dbcl/1.0/ |