SocialPulse: An Open-Source Subreddit Sensemaking Toolkit
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| author | Birkelbach, Stephanie Teleki, Maria Carragher, Peter Dong, Xiangjue Bhatnagar, Nehul Caverlee, James |
| author_facet | Birkelbach, Stephanie Teleki, Maria Carragher, Peter Dong, Xiangjue Bhatnagar, Nehul Caverlee, James |
| contents | Understanding how online communities discuss and make sense of complex social issues is a central challenge in social media research, yet existing tools for large-scale discourse analysis are often closed-source, difficult to adapt, or limited to single analytical views. We present SocialPulse, an open-source subreddit sensemaking toolkit that unifies multiple complementary analyses -- topic modeling, sentiment analysis, user activity characterization, and bot detection -- within a single interactive system. SocialPulse enables users to fluidly move between aggregate trends and fine-grained content, compare highly active and long-tail contributors, and examine temporal shifts in discourse across subreddits. The demo showcases end-to-end exploratory workflows that allow researchers and practitioners to rapidly surface themes, participation patterns, and emerging dynamics in large Reddit datasets. By offering an extensible and openly available platform, SocialPulse provides a practical and reusable foundation for transparent, reproducible sensemaking of online community discourse. |
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| spellingShingle | SocialPulse: An Open-Source Subreddit Sensemaking Toolkit Birkelbach, Stephanie Teleki, Maria Carragher, Peter Dong, Xiangjue Bhatnagar, Nehul Caverlee, James Social and Information Networks Understanding how online communities discuss and make sense of complex social issues is a central challenge in social media research, yet existing tools for large-scale discourse analysis are often closed-source, difficult to adapt, or limited to single analytical views. We present SocialPulse, an open-source subreddit sensemaking toolkit that unifies multiple complementary analyses -- topic modeling, sentiment analysis, user activity characterization, and bot detection -- within a single interactive system. SocialPulse enables users to fluidly move between aggregate trends and fine-grained content, compare highly active and long-tail contributors, and examine temporal shifts in discourse across subreddits. The demo showcases end-to-end exploratory workflows that allow researchers and practitioners to rapidly surface themes, participation patterns, and emerging dynamics in large Reddit datasets. By offering an extensible and openly available platform, SocialPulse provides a practical and reusable foundation for transparent, reproducible sensemaking of online community discourse. |
| title | SocialPulse: An Open-Source Subreddit Sensemaking Toolkit |
| topic | Social and Information Networks |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07248 |