This guide mentions how to analyze posts' popularity using Reddit JSON API according to the main question asked by graduate student Clay McLeod: What factors draw people to certain Reddit posts while shunning others? With a Python script, users can download a CVS file with information about domain, subreddit, upvotes, downvotes, and number of comments. The data can be consequently analyzed with R statistic language.
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