Pushshift Reddit — 2014-04
The Reddit comments in the Pushshift archive's monthly file for April 2014: 42,440,735 comments posted in 38,363 subreddits between 1 April 2014 00:00 UTC and 30 April 2014 23:59 UTC, from the monthly comment file RC_2014-04.bz2 of the Pushshift Reddit dataset (Baumgartner, Zannettou, Keegan, Squire and Blackburn, ICWSM 2020). Each comment has its text, author name, time, the comment or submission it answers, the submission thread and the subreddit, together with the score and flair fields of the original record. 25,776,053 comments reply to another comment and 16,664,682 are top-level comments on a submission. 5,479,603 comments (13%) carry the author name "[deleted]". The month is one of a monthly series; the submissions themselves are not part of this file.
Cite this dataset at
pushshift-reddit-2014-04.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 1,536,911 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
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Computed over the full corpus. Degree assortativity: exact — networkx's degree assortativity (Pearson correlation of the degrees at the two ends of every edge; directed: out-degree of the source against in-degree of the target), computed with DuckDB Bridge bottleneck count: exact — biconnected components of the undirected graph (NetworKit) Connected components: exact — weakly connected components (NetworKit) Density: exact Reciprocity rate: exact (DuckDB) Top 10 centrality hubs: exact — full degree count (DuckDB)
Record
- Catalog key
pushshift-reddit-2014-04- Authors
- Baumgartner, Jason; Zannettou, Savvas; Keegan, Brian; Squire, Megan; Blackburn, Jeremy
- Year
- 2020
- Source paper
- The Pushshift Reddit Dataset
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1609/icwsm.v14i1.7347
- License
- Unknown
- Records
- 39,223,712
- Nodes
- 1,536,911
- Edges
- 15,608,329 (directed)
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2014-04 (2010s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://archive.org/details/2015_reddit_comments_corpus unverified
- Original files as received
- The source files, unconverted, kept for reference: mirrored on echo.directory, 3.9 GB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json. For use, start with the data package below.
- Data package
- Version 1.0.0 of this dataset as an ECHO Data Package: posts (42,440,735 rows), communities (38,363 rows).
- Structure
- Temporal (timestamped), Text, Threaded conversations
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@misc{baumgartner2020pushshift,
title = {The Pushshift Reddit Dataset},
author = {Baumgartner, Jason and Zannettou, Savvas and Keegan, Brian and Squire, Megan and Blackburn, Jeremy},
year = {2020},
eprint = {2001.08435},
archiveprefix = {arXiv}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Baumgartner, J., Zannettou, S., Keegan, B., Squire, M., & Blackburn, J. (2020). Pushshift Reddit — 2014-04 [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v14i1.7347
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Baumgartner, Jason, et al. Pushshift Reddit — 2014-04. 2020, doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v14i1.7347.