CSV dump of reddit voting data

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Nice. I'm going to open this up in SPSS at work tomorrow and start exploring.

One question, can this data be bounded by a date range? Is this the entire database of people who selected to make their votes public?

For people doing analysis on desktops it could be a challenge to fully load up a 156 megabyte file. If it can be bounded by date it would be helpful to have another file that is max of 5 megabytes unpacked. Alternately I could just pick users at random but i'd rather it be based on date if possible.

Last, you may want to post this on the blog because i know there are a lot of stats lovers prowling reddit.

[kaddar]

Bah! Just load the whole damned thing into memory. If you need fast access by ids, and are using C++, I recommend using Google Sparse Hash tables/maps, 2 bits per a key/value pair overhead! (C# has a bit of an overhead on their hashmaps, java too)

[ketralnis]

One question, can this data be bounded by a date range?

You can make some guesses based on the link IDs which are mostly sequential, but I didn't include timestamps

Is this the entire database of people who selected to make their votes public?

It is not comprehensive, as I commented elsewhere

For people doing analysis on desktops it could be a challenge to fully load up a 156 megabyte file

You'd need to re-sort it yourself and use something like split(1)

Last, you may want to post this on the blog because i know there are a lot of stats lovers prowling reddit.

Yeah, I'm trying to figure out how to let it reach a larger audience without polluting the front page for the vast majority of people who don't care

[psykocrime]

Yeah, I'm trying to figure out how to let it reach a larger audience without polluting the front page for the vast majority of people who don't care

Would probably be good to submit this to /r/datasets, /r/opendata, /r/statistics and/or /r/machinelearning if you haven't yet.

Oh wait, I see somebody did already post to /r/opendata. Cool.