Reddit Oracle

Reddit front page prediction from titles and subreddit origin.

Businuess Understanding:

Sentiment analysis is a complex topic, I believe there is a perfect application to see how people react to headlines. Here we can use the reddit's voting engine on what is "popular" to see how people react to headlines.

Data Understanding:

The data would be headlines, times, web-urls, and subreddits of new and front page posts.

Data Preparation:

Using standard NLP modeling techniques, TF-IDF, tokenizing, stemming of headlines.

Modeling:

Using a classification model, or ensemble of classification models with labels as to whether or not they made it to the front page.

Evaluation:

Accuracy as to whether or not predicted posts make it to the front page.

Deployment:

Web app with word cloud, and allows users to get a prediction probability on a headline they type in.