Reddit Climate Change Debate Dataset

This dataset contains pairwise interactions between Reddit users debating climate change on general-purpose subreddits. Each account is enriched with information about the stance concerning climate change (e.g., whether one denies or believes climate change exists) estimated by a deep neural model. 

All data is anonymized, and no personally identifiable information is released.

Dataset

Interactions are stored in four files, each encompassing 3 months of interactions in 2022. Each interaction file climatechange-X.csv contains three columns identifying source, target, and weight, respectively. The resulting graphs are directed.

The climatechange-opinions.csv file contains three columns identifying node, opinion, and time window. Opinions are stored as floats in [-1,1] such that 1 implies maximum adherence with deniers, -1 implies maximum adherence with supporters, and 0 implies neutrality. Thus, a line like 42,0.99,2 should be read as "node 42 is a climate change denier in the second quarter of 2022".

Code to reproduce the experiments in the paper is released in a jupyter notebook.

For further information on fields and volumes, please refer to the data paper.

Citation

If used for research purposes, please cite the following paper describing the dataset details:

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Acknowledgements

This work is supported by:

the European Union – Horizon 2020 Program under the scheme “INFRAIA-01-2018-2019 – Integrating Activities for Advanced Communities”,Grant Agreement n.871042, “SoBigData++: European Integrated Infrastructure for Social Mining and Big Data Analytics” (http://www.sobigdata.eu); 

SoBigData.it which receives funding from the European Union – NextGenerationEU – National Recovery and Resilience Plan (Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza, PNRR) – Project: “SoBigData.it – Strengthening the Italian RI for Social Mining and Big Data Analytics” – Prot. IR0000013 – Avviso n. 3264 del 28/12/2021;

EU NextGenerationEU programme under the funding schemes PNRR-PE-AI FAIR (Future Artificial Intelligence Research).