Dissecting Trump’s Most Rabid Online Following

The title of this piece doesn't adequately reflect the fascinating methodology it contains. The 538 team uses latent sentiment analysis to create a kind of algebra for subreddits, i.e. r/running + r/weightlifting = r/fitness. Politics aside, it's (IMHO) well worth the 15 minutes it takes to read. I'd love to see HN readers more experienced with the methodology take it to task and see what shakes out.

The code is on GH [1] and the data is on BigQuery [2].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fivethirtyeight&#x2F;data&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;subreddit-algebra" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fivethirtyeight&#x2F;data&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;subreddi...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bigquery.cloud.google.com&#x2F;table&#x2F;fh-bigquery:reddit_comments.2015_05" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bigquery.cloud.google.com&#x2F;table&#x2F;fh-bigquery:reddit_c...</a>

This story is extremely fascinating and relevant to the HackerNews Community but it&#x27;s already been Shadow Banned. Neat.

I haven&#x27;t read the linked articled (yet), but I wanted to urge everyone to check out r&#x2F;the_donald. It is the strangest online community that I&#x27;ve seen.<p>Truth doesn&#x27;t really matter unless it supports us, everyone who says good things about us is right and everyone who doesn&#x27;t is a corrupt MSM cuck libtard. To get banned you don&#x27;t even have to be critical of Trump. If you&#x27;re even ambiguous you&#x27;ll get banned. In a sense this is self-selection in that the only people that haven&#x27;t been banned are lunatic-level supporters.<p>Basically, it&#x27;s Donald Trump times 380,000. You have to experience it.