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Re:Visualizing discussions on Reddit with a D3 network and E... by jemhoff on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @09:58AM (#6166575)
Good stuff! I wonder if you could somehow classify the conversation trees using depth or branching factor or whatever to predict and/or discover hot topics. Like you said, AMAs tend to have a pretty obvious structure but maybe that could be extended to discover "controversial" threads -- or even people!
Re:Visualizing discussions on Reddit with a D3 network and E... by kwntm on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @10:02AM (#6166595)
That's an awesome idea. A buddy was telling me to create a bot for it too, like if a conversation derails enough and focuses on one of the comments, it would post an image of the network having been derailed. On discovering hot topics- that makes sense- I bet there is a characteristic "engaging" type of network, regardless what exactly the content is.