Reddit

Analysis of compound curse words used on Reddit

Statistical Visualization / Colin Morris, humor, language, Reddit

As you know, Reddit is typically a sophisticated place of kind and pleasant…

AI says if you’re the a**hole

Statistics / AI, Reddit

There’s a subreddit where people share a story and ask if they’re the…

Wanna know somefing?

Self-surveillance / humor, kids, Reddit

From Reddit user wequiock_falls, “What I’m about to learn about after my kid…

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Moratorium On Bar Chart Races; When Impractical Visualization is More Practical (The Process #68)

The Process / bar chart race, novelty, Reddit

The dataisbeautiful subreddit announced a moratorium on the ever popular bar chart race. The frequency of submissions that used the method got out of hand and spam made it all the less savory. Still, the method holds value.

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Reddit Follow-up; Chart Like Nobody’s Looking (The Process #57)

The Process / attention, audience, Reddit

Consider your audience. Yes. But at some point in the visualization creation process, you have to disregard all of the feature requests and design suggestions.

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That Time My Chart Was on the Reddit Front Page and Everyone Hated It (The Process #56)

The Process / criticism, Reddit

Something I made was on the front page of Reddit. Cool. The problem: thousands of people downvoted it. Here’s what I learned.

Celebrity name spelling test

Infographics / Pudding, Reddit, spelling

Colin Morris culled common misspellings on Reddit and made the data available on…

Looking for common misspellings

Data Sources / Reddit, spelling

Some words are harder to spell than others, and on the internet, sometimes…

Growth of Subreddits

Data Underload / comments, Reddit

As of September 2018, there were 892 million comments for the year so far, spread out over 355,939 subreddits. Here’s how it got to this point, and “what the internet has been talking about” during the past 12 years.