COVID-19 Reddit Information Network

Prerequisites

Check out the file requirements.txt to install the correct Python modules

File Structure

Data Collection

Data is collected using main.py and stored in the data_collection folder, using the operations in the data_collection_ops folder

• The data_preprocess_ops folder includes operations which filter and preprocess the data collected to be used for analyzing

Network

All things network related is in the network creation folder (i.e. User social network and the sentiment-weighted bipartite graph)

• The graphs created is saved in the graph_data folder
• Call the get_graph(G) function in created_network.py to do further analysis on the graphs
• Network analysis are stored in the csv_data folder
• Network and graph visualizations created in the analysis are in the graphs folder

Topic Modelling and Sentiment Analysis

• LDA topic modelling related files are found in folders topic_modelling_sentiment_analysis, dictionary_LDA as well as its analysis results in LDA_MODEL and csv_data
• Some large data preprocessing and analysis from the topic model is found in the zipped folder topic_modelling.tar.gz
• Sentiment analysis is found in the topic_modelling_sentiment_analysis folder with results of the analysis are stored in the csv_data folder

Notes

This project is done for the course EECS 4414 Information Networks :)

Thalia Godbout, Razielle Dagdag, Danielle Abila and Justin So. COVID-19 Reddit Information Network.