Analyzing the Human Recommendation Community 'ifyoulikeblank' on Reddit — Auxiliary materials

This repository contains auxiliary materials for the iConference 2024 paper "“If I like BLANK, what else will I like?”: Analyzinga Human Recommendation Community on Reddit" by Thi Binh Minh Cao and Toine Bogers (= corresponding author)

Published in: Proceedings of the 2024 iConference, April 15--26, 2024, Changchun, China.

The paper presents the results of an analysis of /r/ifyoulikeblank, a Reddit community dedicated to requesting and providing for recommendations. This repository contains the following auxiliary materials:

The annotated sample of threads from the /r/ifyoulikeblank subreddit (annotated-dataset.xlsx). The second sheet in the Excel file explains the contents of the file.

The R code for performing the analysis described in the paper (annotation-analysis.R)

CSV file containing the genres attributed to the artists as crawled from the Spotify API (artist-spotify-genres.csv)

CSV file containing the popularity scores crawled from the Spotify API for the seed items and Spotify recommendations (recommendation-popularity.reddit-vs-spotify.csv)

CSV file containing the popularity scores crawled from the Spotify API for the Reddit  (recommendation-popularity.reddit.csv)

The stopwords file used in the textual analysis (stopwords.csv)

Excel file containing the activity data for the /r/ifyoulikeblank subreddit (subreddit-stats.xlsx)