DylanTan1/the-reddit-covid-dataset

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# Dataset Card for the-reddit-covid-dataset

## Table of Contents
- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
- [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
- [Supported Tasks and Leaderboards](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
- [Languages](#languages)
- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
- [Data Instances](#data-instances)
- [Data Fields](#data-fields)
- [Data Splits](#data-splits)
- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)
- [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale)
- [Source Data](#source-data)
- [Annotations](#annotations)
- [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information)
- [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data)
- [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset)
- [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases)
- [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations)
- [Additional Information](#additional-information)
- [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators)
- [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)
- [Citation Information](#citation-information)
- [Contributions](#contributions)

## Disclaimer
Due to file size limitations, we are not able to provide the comments for this dataset. Please feel free to download them from the [website](https://socialgrep.com/datasets?utm_source=huggingface&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=theredditcoviddataset#the-reddit-covid-dataset) - no registration required.

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage:** [https://socialgrep.com/datasets](https://socialgrep.com/datasets?utm_source=huggingface&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=theredditcoviddataset)
- **Point of Contact:** [Website](https://socialgrep.com/contact?utm_source=huggingface&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=theredditcoviddataset)

### Dataset Summary

This corpus contains all the mentions of the term `covid` in post titles on the social media platform Reddit, up until the 25th of October, 2021.

The data was procured from Reddit using [SocialGrep](https://socialgrep.com/?utm_source=huggingface&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=theredditcoviddataset).

### Languages

Mainly English.

## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

A data point is a post or a comment. Due to the separate nature of the two, those exist in two different files - even though many fields are shared.

### Data Fields

- 'type': the type of the data point. Can be 'post' or 'comment'.
- 'id': the base-36 Reddit ID of the data point. Unique when combined with type.
- 'subreddit.id': the base-36 Reddit ID of the data point's host subreddit. Unique.
- 'subreddit.name': the human-readable name of the data point's host subreddit.
- 'subreddit.nsfw': a boolean marking the data point's host subreddit as NSFW or not.
- 'created_utc': a UTC timestamp for the data point.
- 'permalink': a reference link to the data point on Reddit.
- 'score': score of the data point on Reddit.

- 'domain': (Post only) the domain of the data point's link.
- 'url': (Post only) the destination of the data point's link, if any.
- 'selftext': (Post only) the self-text of the data point, if any.
- 'title': (Post only) the title of the post data point.

- 'body': (Comment only) the body of the comment data point.
- 'sentiment': (Comment only) the result of an in-house sentiment analysis pipeline. Used for exploratory analysis.

## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

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### Source Data

#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

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#### Who are the source language producers?

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### Annotations

#### Annotation process

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#### Who are the annotators?

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### Personal and Sensitive Information

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## Considerations for Using the Data

### Social Impact of Dataset

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### Discussion of Biases

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### Other Known Limitations

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## Additional Information

### Dataset Curators

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### Licensing Information

CC-BY v4.0

### Contributions

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