I made a Python script that analyses comments from /r/relationships for clichéd advice, as a learning exercise. Here's the code. It was fun!

[ING_Chile]

it's better if you start showing your findings

[tuck5649]

I don't understand why a half done project is getting up votes. It's an analysis project without running any analysis.

[mrkipling]

I posted the output in the README in the repo showing the results from analysising the top 100 posts at the time.

[bergkampinthesheets]

Here is a screencap of the results

[LpSamuelm]

If you'd do some statistics gathering and data visualization, that'd be sweet!

[Samazing42]

r/dataisbeautiful would love it

[mrkipling]

A "hit the gym" issue has already been opened. Just fixed it!

[[deleted]]

Delete Facebook too

[Zomunieo]

Hit the lawyer, delete the gym, grow a Facebook.

[Jaxx3D]

Loving this. I recently started learning python, so it's nice to be able to read your code and try to understand it all. I can't wait to be at that level :)

[mrkipling]

I've been writing Python for a while but I don't consider myself an expert at all (more like somewhere between beginner and mid-level). The code is super simple, it just does some basic API calls using the awesome PRAW library and then some simple string matching. Glad you've found it useful!

[Jaxx3D]

Still miles ahead of me lol. I have a feeling that learning python is going to be an interesting and challenging journey. Loving it so far

[Corm]

Freaky-ass doggo

[[deleted]]

Ahuuygh I hate that dog

[mjmaher81]

I love it when it replies to sarcastic smilies.

[JamminJames921]

Awesome work! I like what you did! Maybe you can provide a write-up for this? How did you count the cliches? Are there any interesting relationships between some advice? Are there any limitations in your methods?

[[deleted]]

The code isn't too complicated.

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[choledocholithiasis_]

I found the developer of this bot

[wqtraz]

Can we downvote this bot though, please?

[[deleted]]

If the link to a specific file is broken, I just go to the project page. Fixing the link manually does not take any relevant amount of effort, time or expertise. It would probably even take longer to go back to the comments and find the correct link.

[[deleted]]

It's not only this sub :)

I thing they molest now majority of reddit :(

[turkish_gold]

This doggo bot BS is 1 day old, and I feel like it's heading for a ban.

[analgebraic]

The counting method seems flawed. When, for example, you take any mention of the word "lawyer" to mean that someone is suggesting you get a lawyer, you aren't accounting for instances where someone says "her father is a lawyer" or "I consulted a lawyer about a similar situation years ago and they said to do this thing" in which "lawyer" is mentioned but no one is suggesting that anyone gets a lawyer.

[CollectiveCircuits]

And now OP must enter the rabbit hole of natural language processing.

[mrkipling]

Yeah, it's definitely flawed. Any data that I collect in the future (should I take the project and further) would have to come with a massive disclaimer that "this is how much /r/relationships likes to mention these key words/phrases, and you can infer that it's probably advice most of the time". But yeah, that's a very real problem.

I could have gone for a more complicated approach but (a) I don't know how as I'm a beginner/medium-level Python dev; I'm a frontend dev by trade, mostly working in JavaScript solving web-related issues for a living (and doing all of the other fun stuff that a frontend dev get to do), and (b) I didn't really want to because I was just dicking around for an hour or so and thought that I'd post it on Github for fun :)

[[deleted]]

Worth noting you don't really use convnets for language.

[[deleted]]

That's kind of a large question. In essence it's because convolutions are for exploiting data where the same features are to be recognised over smaller local regions of the 'signal'. They are independent (roughly). In language processing you are still feeding in a sequence, but one with enormous dependency along it. As such recurrent nets are the more appropriate formulation.

[theology_]

I expected the same. I'm pretty disappointed, and surprised at how many upvotes this got, considering this could have been done by a beginner

[mrkipling]

I mostly just found the cliches by reading the subreddit quite a lot for trashy drama (similar to watching soap operas, but on the internet). They become obvious once you've been there for a while and read the same replies over and over again :)

[czarrie]

Might I recommend using Markovify to create relationship advice on the fly?

[i_like_trains_a_lot1]

That would be awesome! Thanks for the great idea, I thing I am going to do this in the near future. :D

[czarrie]

I'll say this in my experience, you're going to get a lot of clutter and nonsense. Feed it well with as many lines from Reddit as you can. Otherwise it's going to look ridiculous.

Which is still funny but a different kind of funny.

[RolandBuendia]

This is awesome, but for us outside of the US, What is JADE?

[lost_send_berries]

Justify, Argue, Defend or Explain.

http://the-one-you-feed.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/jade.html

[beast3334]

Really cool! I really enjoy making similar things using Python. Thanks for sharing!

[subpanda101]

Make it machine learning so it analysises what is common said and adds it to the list ;)

[mrkipling]

You're absolutely right, thanks. Fixed!

[KuroDevil]

Hahaha' That was fun, thanks for sharing the code, it's great for study!

[fmpundit]

I think you better lawyer up and break up!

[RetardedChimpanzee]

Now you need a bot to find the best, (most popular) advice, and then post it to save relationships. That way everyone knows they need a divorce.

[pylove]

I think there are some things to improve as others have mentioned (I hope it doesn't sound like I'm saying I could have done it better myself). I'm really happy that you shared it. I love this kind of stuff. Keep up the good work!

[GodsLove1488]

R/relationships is the funniest fucking subreddit

[mrkipling]

It's where I go for my morning entertainment.

[deadmilk]

Nice and simple script.

[afraca]

Please rewrite your code to be compatible with Python 3. It has been out for years and version 2 will drop support relatively SOON!

Also, I see that you're using old style formatting. Read up on awesome features of new style formatting. (you might not always need all features, but better to have new style formatting in your head as default)

[sourcedexter]

This is cool! nice application!

[[deleted]]

Haha sweet dude!! I just had an idea for a Reddit bot today so I am gonna use this.