Caveat emptor, computational social science: Large-scale missing data in a widely-published Reddit corpus

Devin Gaffney; J. Nathan Matias

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0200162

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Caveat emptor, computational social science: Large-scale missing data in a widely-published Reddit corpus

Devin Gaffney ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: gaffney.d@husky.neu.edu

Affiliation Network Science Institute, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9540-5814

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J. Nathan Matias

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America
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Caveat emptor, computational social science: Large-scale missing data in a widely-published Reddit corpus

Devin Gaffney,
J. Nathan Matias

Published: July 6, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200162

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