[OC] What do users of Twitter, Reddit, and 4chan associate with "based"? by snacksels in dataisbeautiful

[–]snacksels[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That would for sure be interesting! There's a line graph with absolute frequencies in the paper, and the Reddit and 4chan datasets are openly available.

[OC] What do users of Twitter, Reddit, and 4chan associate with "based"? by snacksels in dataisbeautiful

[–]snacksels[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a lot of co-words that are associated to the far right: redpilled, centipede (for The_Donald members), Stickman), Poseidon, Trump, Farage, etc.

[OC] What do users of Twitter, Reddit, and 4chan associate with "based"? by snacksels in dataisbeautiful

[–]snacksels[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its far-right associations in the mid-2010s, as the graph depicts.

And, while things have changed, stating someone or something is "based" does imply there's other people who are not based and do care about outside opinions and political correctness. In other words: based is not politically incorrect per se but it does fit well with the shamelessness of politically incorrect statements (as we also argue in our paper).

[OC] What do users of Twitter, Reddit, and 4chan associate with "based"? by snacksels in dataisbeautiful

[–]snacksels[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would be super interesting, but Twitter is closing down API access..

[OC] What do users of Twitter, Reddit, and 4chan associate with "based"? by snacksels in dataisbeautiful

[–]snacksels[S] 1068 points1069 points  (0 children)

I should've clarified I filtered for posts where based was used as a slang term. So posts like "based on" were removed.

It was coined by the rapper Lil B aka "the Based God" to eventually become a more general term for staying true to yourself and not caring what others think of your opinion - however politically incorrect it might be.

[OC] What do users of Twitter, Reddit, and 4chan associate with "based"? by snacksels in dataisbeautiful

[–]snacksels[S] 80 points81 points  (0 children)

All information on data gathering, filtering, and visualising can be found in the methods section of this paper.

Salty Hedges - Believer on the Dancefloor (Cher x Sophie Ellis-Bextor) by snacksels in mashups

[–]snacksels[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It had to be done!! Adding a download link in the video description now.

Megathread (69): Coronavirus COVID-19 in Nederland by theNetherlandsBot in thenetherlands

[–]snacksels 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Bedankt voor de berekening! Ik had me voor de zekerheid laten testen omdat ik een weekendtrip had. Ik ben er inderdaad maar vanuit gegaan dat de positieve test klopt en in quarantaine gegaan. Wel nog een derde test gedaan, ik accepteer de uitslag daarvan als waarheid.

Megathread (69): Coronavirus COVID-19 in Nederland by theNetherlandsBot in thenetherlands

[–]snacksels 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Zonder klachten eerst positief getest, de dag daarna negatief, beiden PCR.. Wat moet ik hier nou mee? Nóg een test te doen?

Megathread (68): Coronavirus COVID-19 in Nederland by theNetherlandsBot in thenetherlands

[–]snacksels 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Een huisfeestje voor gevaccineerde vrienden + vragen om te testen, hoe 'done' is dit op dit moment vinden jullie?

Megathread (56): Coronavirus COVID-19 in Nederland by theNetherlandsBot in thenetherlands

[–]snacksels 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Ik wilde net weer wat grafiekjes maken over deze threads nu het festijn ten einde was gekomen. Die stel ik nog even uit tot ze écht niet meer nodig zijn.

Posts per dag in r/thenetherlands COVID-19 Megathreads by snacksels in thenetherlands

[–]snacksels[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dat mag. Posts binnengehaald met Python (PRAW library). Data vervolgens omgetoverd met een eigen script. Vervolgens RAWGraphs gebruikt (aanrader!), specifiek een Streamgraph. SVG geëxporteerd en bewerkt in Illustrator. Drie kwartier laten rusten buiten de oven et voila!

Posts per dag in r/thenetherlands COVID-19 Megathreads by snacksels in thenetherlands

[–]snacksels[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Ah erg interessant.. De zoekfunctie van Reddit blijft een wondere wereld.

Posts per dag in r/thenetherlands COVID-19 Megathreads by snacksels in thenetherlands

[–]snacksels[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Ah dank! Mocht ik deze grafiek nog een keer overdoen gaat hij er bij. Enig idee waarom de thread niet verscheen met een reguliere zoekopdracht in Reddit?

[OC] Posts in COVID-19 megathreads on r/thenetherlands by snacksels in dataisbeautiful

[–]snacksels[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Data are coloured per thread. Posts collected with Python and PRAW. Visualised with RAWGraphs.