Reddit × Academic

2 datasets that are both from Reddit and tagged Academic.

2 datasets.

Reddit Financial Subreddits Dataset 2008–2020 Analyzed

A Reddit dataset of 8,035,392 comments across 6 financial subreddits, 2008–2020, collected by Zenodo contributor via Pushshift Reddit API. Each record contains body text, subreddit, author, created_date, year, readability metrics (Fog index, avg words/sentence, avg syllables/word). 8M+ Reddit comments from r/personalfinance, r/Frugal, r/Economics, r/business, r/investing, and r/financialindependence spanning 2008–2020, pre-annotated with Gunning Fog readability scores.. Suitable for Financial discourse analysis, readability research, community language evolution, NLP on financial social media..

8M records2025

What Makes Programmers Laugh? r/ProgrammerHumor Dataset (ESEM 2024) Analyzed

A Reddit dataset of 139,718 posts from r/ProgrammerHumor, 2014–2022, collected by Noei, Gauthier-Ouellet, Adams (Queen's University) via Reddit API. Each record contains post text (OCR for images), title, score, scoreratio, ncomments, post type (image/text/link), timestamp, LDA topic ID, virality label. 139k r/ProgrammerHumor submissions (2014–2022) with LDA topic labels, engagement metrics, and binary virality labels; replication package for ESEM 2024 paper on humor in software communities.. Suitable for Humor detection, community engagement analysis, software discourse, LDA topic modeling validation..

139.7K records2024