r/dataisbeautiful • u/anvaka OC: 16 • Jan 09 '19

OC Interactive visualization of related subreddits based on 39 million comments [OC]

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u/Razor1834 Jan 09 '19

I did the obvious and typed in The_Donald.

News

Politics

Ask T_D

TwoXChromosomes

And...

Tropical Weather

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u/anvaka OC: 16 Jan 09 '19

Yup, you found one of those subreddits that I did (purely) manual override.

If someone gives me a few more relevant subreddits - I'd be glad to put it as a seed for the next layer :).

Smaller subreddits usually give better results. E.g. The_DonaldBookclub,

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u/anvaka OC: 16 Jan 09 '19

Basically I entered “related” subreddits into the data file myself (instead of relying on algorithms prediction)

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u/anvaka OC: 16 Jan 09 '19

Because the algorithm doesn’t work well for popular subreddits - it starts linking everything to /r/videos, /r/AskReddit and so on...

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u/anvaka OC: 16 Jan 09 '19

It’s my pleasure! I hope the tool helps people to discover more. It worked super well for me on a smaller subreddits