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We can use data from social media to examine and uncover links between positive and negative emotions. The findings of this article can be applied to a variety of subjects, including psychology and sociology. The goal was to provide insight into various observations made during our analysis. For this, we used Reddit comments as a reference point and data analytics to obtain various results. Our contributions to this paper are to grasp the concept of emotions and appropriately evaluate the data and analyzing Reddit comments and attempting to answer questions regarding the data acquired and discussing potential improvements to our analysis for future works in the field. We selected Reddit since it includes roughly 50 default subreddit themes that are accessible on the home page, including news, gaming, movies, music, and many others. Furthermore, redditors have the option of creating their own subreddit. Moreover, Reddit is one of the world's most prominent social networking websites. This makes it appropriate for our needs because it has a large number of user comments, which we can simply retrieve using the easy to use Pushshift API. The acquired comments data was then cleaned and analyzed using R in Rstudio and results were generated. Based on the results, conclusions were generated like correlations and mean values.
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Palit, S., Pradhan, C., Elngar, A.A. (2023). A Descriptive Analysis of Reddit Comments Using Data Analytics Approach. In: Bhateja, V., Yang, XS., Lin, J.CW., Das, R. (eds) Evolution in Computational Intelligence. FICTA 2022. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 326. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7513-4_16
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