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+# Reddit Randomness Dataset
+A dataset I created because I was curious about how "random" r/random really is.
+This data was collected by sending `GET` requests to `https://www.reddit.com/r/random` for a few hours on September 19th, 2021.
+I scraped a bit of metadata about the subreddits as well.
+`randomness_12k_clean.csv` reports the random subreddits as they happened and `summary.csv` lists some metadata about each subreddit.
+
+# The Data
+
+## `randomness_12k_clean.csv`
+This file serves as a record of the 12,055 successful results I got from r/random.
+Each row represents one result.
+
+### Fields
+* `subreddit`: The name of the subreddit that the scraper recieved from r/random (`string`)
+* `response_code`: HTTP response code the scraper recieved when it sent a `GET` request to /r/random (`int`, always `302`)
+
+## `summary.csv`
+As the name suggests, this file summarizes `randomness_12k_clean.csv` into the information that I cared about when I analyzed this data.
+Each row represents one of the 3,679 unique subreddits and includes some stats about the subreddit as well as the number of times it appears in the results.
+
+### Fields
+* `subreddit`: The name of the subreddit (`string`, unique)
+* `subscribers`: How many subscribers the subreddit had (`int`, max of `99_886`) 
+* `current_users`: How many users accessed the subreddit in the past 15 minutes (`int`, max of `999`)
+* `creation_date`: Date that the subreddit was created (`YYYY-MM-DD` or `Error:PrivateSub` or `Error:Banned`)
+* `date_accessed`: Date that I collected the values in `subscribers` and `current_users` (`YYYY-MM-DD`)
+* `time_accessed_UTC`: Time that I collected the values in `subscribers` and `current_users`, reported in UTC+0 (`HH:MM:SS`)
+* `appearances`: How many times the subreddit shows up in `randomness_12k_clean.csv` (`int`, max of `9`)
+
+# Missing Values and Quirks
+In the `summary.csv` file, there are three missing values. 
+After I collected the number of subscribers and the number of current users, I went back about a week later to collect the creation date of each subreddit.
+In that week, three subreddits had been banned or taken private. I filled in the values with a descriptive string.
+* SomethingWasWrong (`Error:PrivateSub`)
+* HannahowoOnlyfans (`Error:Banned`)
+* JanetGuzman (`Error:Banned`)
+
+I think there are a few NSFW subreddits in the results, even though I only queried r/random and not r/randnsfw. 
+As a simple example, searching the data for "nsfw" shows that I got the subreddit r/nsfwanimegifs twice.
+
+
+# License
+This dataset is made available under the Open Database License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/. Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed under the Database Contents License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/dbcl/1.0/