Text analysis of the internet forum r/wallstreetbets subreddit to predict the popularity of posts from the post's text.

Final project for NYU Messy Data and Machine Learning class. Contains explicit language.

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├── analyses          # Feature engineering, model fitting, and performance estimates
│   └── plots         # Plots
├── data              # Cleaned data and cleaning scripts
├── inputs            # Raw input data and scraping scripts
├── material          # Class material (proposal and paper)
└── README.md

To reproduce, run the scripts in the following order:

1. inputs/scrape_WBS.R
2. data/cleaning.R
3. Features:
   1. analyses/topic_modeling.R
   2. analyses/sentiment_scoring.py
   3. analyses/GME_price.R
   4. analyses/comment_hierarchy.R
4. analyses/feature_engineering.R
5. analyses/feature_selection.R
6. analyses/create_train_test_split.R
7. analyses/model_upvotes.R