Reddit climate change project

About

This repository contains a university project about text analysis and processing of Reddit posts containing the words "climate" and "change" in the years 2010 to 2022.

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Jan Fabian Ehmke

Group members: Britz Luis, Huber Anja, Krause Felix Elias, Preda Yvonne-Nadine

University of Vienna, summer term 2023

Download data from kaggle and place in a folder "data" in working directory.

Files Content

1. EDA and text analysis of dataset shared above
2. Pre-processing of data
3. Year-wise topic detection using BERT
4. Sentiment and emotion detection using pre-trained HuggingFace transformers
5. Visualizations of general results
6. Two files for creating a final plot for high-level grouped topics

Also check out the "poster_reddit_climate_change" file for an overview of the whole project.

Some Final Results

Emotion of Comments over the Years

Topic Frequencies over the Months in 2019

Share of Comments grouped to High-Level Categories Over Time