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How people talk about marijuana on Reddit: a natural language analysis

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Re: How people talk about marijuana on Reddit: a natural language analysis

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Post by code_duck »

ktRolster wrote: post #31
code_duck wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many believed Trump to be a libertarian or even a closet Democrat, who supported saner policy for the practical reasons that many do, setting aside their personal beliefs about whether individuals should consume drugs.

More than a closet Democrat, he was an active Democrat who voted Democrat and donated to the party. Overall philosophically he's probably more 'opportunist' than anything.

Sure, in the past. If he's a Democrat now or in the past 8 years, it's definitely a well-kept secret.

Re: How people talk about marijuana on Reddit: a natural language analysis

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Post by PascLeRasc »

Yen wrote: post #27
nonsince wrote: post #6

Decent intro to natural language processing, but scientifically rubbish. I think using "cannabis" and "marajuana" skews heavily towards advocacy and serious discussion, since general chat about weed will use words such as, well, weed. Or pot, or hash, or herbs, or the maple leaf emoji, or a link to /r/trees. The problem with natural language processing on drugs is that the names people use for drugs are specifically…

Even more egregious than that: > For quality control, I looked only at comments with Reddit score > 100 That's a non-trivial popularity score. Also, since it's an absolute score, it will bias against smaller subreddits, where 100 points on any comment is a difficult task. This is much less "how people talk on reddit", and much more "the type of comment that gets upvotes on the default subreddits"

Yikes, that sounds like a great way to bias your data away from controversial opinions about weed. That would be like taking an exit poll of only people wearing lots of political apparel.

Re: How people talk about marijuana on Reddit: a natural language analysis

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Post by gozur88 »

Muuuchem wrote: post #9

Funny how marijuana was most mentioned with Donald Trump. I know the /r/trees subreddit thought Trump would be good for recreational Marijuana but doesn't look like that is true. The Trump subreddit (The_Donald) was also extremely pro marijauna and often boasted that Trump was better for legal marijuana than Clinton. Then enter Jefferey Bouraguard Sessions III.

Trump can't legalize marijuana. Only Congress can do that. If Sessions is enforcing the law, well, that's his job.

Re: How people talk about marijuana on Reddit: a natural language analysis

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Post by abraves10001 »

wtf_is_up wrote: post #37
Muuuchem wrote: post #9

Funny how marijuana was most mentioned with Donald Trump. I know the /r/trees subreddit thought Trump would be good for recreational Marijuana but doesn't look like that is true. The Trump subreddit (The_Donald) was also extremely pro marijauna and often boasted that Trump was better for legal marijuana than Clinton. Then enter Jefferey Bouraguard Sessions III.

>Then enter Jefferey Bouraguard Sessions III People haven't been this obssessed with a politician's middle name since Barack hit the scene almost a decade ago. I'm really glad you felt the need to add it, since I don't think I would've felt the full dramatic effect of your comment otherwise.

I love the 3 named presidents.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Warren Gamaliel Harding.

Re: How people talk about marijuana on Reddit: a natural language analysis

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minimaxir wrote: post #5

A quick note about using natural language/sentiment APIs: trained machine learning models must be used apples-to-apples on similar datasets; for example, you can’t accurately perform Twitter sentiment analysis on a dataset using a model trained on professional movie reviews since Tweets do not follow AP Style guidelines. (e.g. for some reason, training Python's NLTK on the IMDb movie review dataset to predict the sen…

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