Reddit r/teaching Community Sentiment Dataset (Pre/Post COVID) Analyzed
A Reddit (r/teaching community) dataset of 1,304,575 comments from r/teaching with 5-class sentiment scores, pre/post COVID labels (438,027 pre, 866,548 post), and relational language detection, collected by Cai et al. via Reddit API (2024). Each record contains comment text, post title, post selftext, created_utc, score, reply_count, pandemic_period (0=pre/1=post COVID), predicted_rating (1-5), normalized_sentiment (-1 to +1), contains_relational_word, sentiment_probabilities. 1,304,575 r/teaching comments with fine-grained 5-class sentiment analysis spanning pre/post COVID — enabling longitudinal study of how teaching community discourse and emotional tone shifted during the pandemic. Suitable for community sentiment analysis, COVID-19 discourse shifts, longitudinal NLP, education community research, relational language detection, sentiment classification.
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