dmarx / Reddit_response_to_Trump

Quantifying the Reddit community's response to US political turmoil following the election of Donald Trump
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This project constructs the following report. A detailed discussion of the methodology used to collect the data and construct the charts for that report can be found in this notebook. This latter notebook actually builds the charts for the former, so to reproduce this analysis run the "methodology" notebook first and then run the "report" notebook.

NB: nbviewer caches rendered notebooks. It may be neessary to append ?flush_cache=true to the URL to get the latest version of this notebook.

Although Github is normally able to render jupyter notebooks, it has issues with plotly charts (see discussion on this issue so if you don't want to run the notebook yourself, we need to use nbviewer to view it.

This project presumes you have configured a praw.ini file with the necessary credentials for accessing Reddit. Instructions for configuring praw.ini can be found here: http://praw.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started/configuration/prawini.html