📊 Reddit Sentiment Analysis: AI in Education

This project collects Reddit posts related to "AI in Education" using the PRAW API and prepares them for sentiment and time series analysis. It supports multiple subreddits and stores structured data in CSV format.

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🧾 Project Structure

reddit-sentiment-ai-education/
│
├── data/
│   ├── raw/
│   └── cleaned/
├── src/
│   ├── collect.py
│   ├── cleaning.py
│   └── sentiment.py
├── visuals/
|   └── visualise.py
├── README.md
├── requirements.txt
└── .gitignore

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🔐 .env Template

Copy this to a file named .env in the root directory and fill in your Reddit app credentials:

REDDIT_CLIENT_ID=your_client_id_here
REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET=your_client_secret_here
REDDIT_USER_AGENT=script by u/your_reddit_username

👉 Never share your .env file or push it to GitHub. It's excluded by .gitignore.

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⚙️ Setup Instructions

1. Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/your-username/reddit-sentiment-analysis.git
cd reddit-data-analysis

2. Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Set up your environment:

• Create a .env file using the template above.

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🚀 Run the Script

Run the main script to fetch Reddit posts:

python collect.py

This will:

• Search Reddit for posts matching "AI in education"
• Across subreddits: education, artificial, technology
• Save the output to data/raw/reddit_posts.csv

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🧪 Output Example

Sample columns in the CSV:

• title
• selftext
• created_utc
• score
• subreddit
• url
• full_text

You can now use this data for:

• Sentiment analysis using VADER
• Time series analysis with Matplotlib or Seaborn

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📎 License

MIT License

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🙋‍♂️ Questions or Contributions?

Feel free to open an issue or pull request. Collaboration is welcome!