README.md

Reddit Sentiment Analysis

Reddit sentiment analysis project using React & Flux (Alt)

• Project Aims
• Core Technologies
• Getting Started
• Additional info

Project Aims

• Retrieve latest comments from Reddit containing a specific term.
• Run sentiment analysis on comments.
• Aggregate results
• Display all comments retrieved & allow for filtering
• Test React & Flux (Alt)

Core Technologies

• React 0.14
• Flux (Alt)
• D3
• Material UI
• Webpack
• Babel 6
• Express
• Node

Getting Started

$ npm install

Start the local dev server:

$ npm run start

Navigate to http://localhost:8080/ to view the app.

Additional Info

• React Boilerplate:
  • Code taken from Git repo: pheuter/essential-react
  • Clean and simple layout with minimal tools.
• Reddit Search API:
  • Currently Reddit does not allow searching for a term in comments, only in posts/listings.
  • Used https://api.pushshift.io as it tracks latest comments.
• Sentiment Analysis API:
  • Using vivekn/sentiment-web
  • Using this API as it is free and allows batch processing
  • Not necessarily accurate sentiment analysis, however meets the needs for the current project
  • Addtional APIs to consider implementing at a later stage:
    • Alchemy API: Free (limited use per day), but no batch processing
    • TwinWord: Free, no batch processing