Effects of community management on user activity in online communities

Data and code needed to reproduce the results of the paper "Effects of community management on user activity in online communities", available in draft here. Instructions: Unzip the files. Start with JSON files obtained from calling platform APIs: each dataset consists of one file for posts, one for comments, one for users. In the paper we use two datasets, one referring Edgeryders, the other to Matera 2019. Run them through edgesense (https://github.com/edgeryders/edgesense). Edgesense allows to set the length of the observation period. We set it to 1 week and 1 day for Edgeryders data, and to 1 day for Matera 2019 data. Edgesense stores its results in a file called JSON network.min.json, which we then rename to keep track of the data source and observation length. Launch Jupyter Notebook and run the notebook provided to convert the network.min.json files into CSV flat files, one for each netwrk file Launch Stata and open each flat csv files with it, then save it in Stata format. Use the provided Stata .do scripts to replicate results. Please note: I use both Stata and Jupyter Notebook interactively, running a block with a few lines of code at a time. Expect to have to change directories, file names etc.