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-## EAS 504 Project
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-To be updated soon...
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+EAS 4/587 -- Data Intensive Computing
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+1. Motivation
+
+1.1. Reddit is a social media website where users can post links to
+articles, images, videos, etc. and other users can comment on them.
+Authors of the posts, generally look to drive maximum engagement from
+their posts.
+
+1.2. Unlike other social media websites, Reddit has a unique feature of
+upvoting and downvoting the posts. Also, since the posts are publicly
+visible, factors like the time of posting, the number of upvotes, the
+number of comments, etc. matter a lot.
+
+1.3. Since there are a lot of posts being made every minute, significant
+posts can get lost in the crowd. Also, the posts that are made at a
+particular time of the day, may not be visible to the users who are
+active at a different time of the day.
+
+2. Problem Statement
+
+2.1 Fetch the data using the Reddit Developer API from different
+programming related subreddits (communities). Since, there are a lot
+of subreddits on Reddit; we will keep the scope of the project
+limited.
+
+2.2 Analyze the data and find relevant insights after cleaning and
+preprocessing the data.
+
+Further report is available in reports folder.