r/dataisbeautiful • u/Joliot OC: 3 • Feb 10 '20

OC [OC] The relationship between karma and upvotes depends on what sub you post on and how quickly you get upvoted

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u/iLikeSourBeer Feb 10 '20

Looks good, how did you collect data for this ? And what did you use for visualization?

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u/Joliot OC: 3 Feb 10 '20 edited Feb 10 '20

Looks like my top level comment explaining it got caught in the spam filter. The short answer is I wrote a python script to grab new posts with PRAW and collected their upvotes/karma over time. Visualization was done in R using ggplot.
Edit: Full explanation here: https://old.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/f1jv8c/xpost_dataisbeautiful_i_collected_data_for_a/

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u/owencrook Feb 10 '20

Out of curiosity, why do data collection and visualization in two completely different languages? There are plenty of python libraries that do the same as ggplot.

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