Refactor Reddit data pipeline structure

README.md

@@ -6,63 +6,62 @@ A comprehensive pipeline for archiving, processing, and analyzing Reddit data fr
 
 ## 🗂️ Repository Structure
 
-```
-├── analyzed_subreddits/           # Case studies of specific subreddits
-│   ├── comments/                  # Subreddit-specific comment archives
-│   │   └── RC_funny.parquet      # r/funny comments (example case study)
-│   ├── reddit-media/              # Media organized by subreddit
-│   │   ├── content-hashed/        # Content-addressable media storage
-│   │   ├── images/
-│   │   │   └── r_funny/2025/01/01 # Daily images by subreddit
-│   │   └── videos/
-│   │       └── r_funny/2025/01/01 # Daily videos by subreddit
-│   └── submissions/               # Subreddit-specific submission archives
-│       └── RS_funny.parquet      # r/funny submissions (example)
+```bash
+├── scripts/                           # Analysis scripts
+├── analysis/                          # Analysis methods and visualizations
+│   ├── original_schema_analysis/      # Schema evolution analysis
+│   │   ├── comments/                  # Comment schema analysis results
+│   │   ├── figures/                   # Schema analysis visualizations
+│   │   └── submissions/               # Submission schema analysis results
+│   │       ├── analysis_report_2005.txt
+│   │       ├── analysis_report_2006.txt
+│   │       └── ...
+│   └── parquet_subreddits_analysis/   # Analysis of Parquet-converted data
+│       ├── comments/                  # Comment data analysis
+│       ├── figures/                   # Subreddit analysis visualizations
+│       └── submissions/               # Submission data analysis
 │
-├── converted_parquet/             # Optimized Parquet format (year-partitioned)
-│   ├── comments/                  # Comments 2005-2025
-│   │   ├── 2005/ ── 2025/        # Year partitions for efficient querying
-│   └── submissions/               # Submissions 2005-2025
-│       ├── 2005/ ── 2025/        # Year partitions
+├── analyzed_subreddits/               # Focused subreddit case studies
+│   ├── comments/                      # Subreddit-specific comment archives
+│   │   └── RC_funny.parquet          # r/funny comments (empty as of now)
+│   ├── reddit-media/                  # Media organized by subreddit and date
+│   │   ├── content-hashed/           # Deduplicated media (content addressing)
+│   │   ├── images/                   # Image media
+│   │   │   └── r_funny/              # Organized by subreddit
+│   │   │       └── 2025/01/01/      # Daily structure for temporal analysis
+│   │   └── videos/                   # Video media
+│   │       └── r_funny/              # Organized by subreddit
+│   │           └── 2025/01/01/      # Daily structure
+│   └── submissions/                   # Subreddit-specific submission archives
+│       └── RS_funny.parquet          # r/funny submissions (empty as of now)
 │
-├── figures/                       # Analysis visualizations
-│   ├── parquet_subreddits_analysis/ # Analysis of Parquet-converted data
-│   │   ├── comments/
-│   │   └── submissions/
-│   └── original_schema_analysis/       # Schema evolution analysis
-│       ├── comments/
-│       └── submissions/
+├── converted_parquet/                 # Optimized Parquet format (year-partitioned)
+│   ├── comments/                      # Comments 2005-2025
+│   │   ├── 2005/ ── 2025/            # Year partitions for efficient querying
+│   └── submissions/                   # Submissions 2005-2025
+│       ├── 2005/ ── 2025/            # Year partitions
 │
-├── original_dump/                 # Raw downloaded data
-│   ├── comments/                  # Monthly comment archives (ZST compressed)
-│   │   ├── RC_2005-12.zst ── RC_2025-12.zst  # 20 years of comments
-│   │   └── schema_analysis/       # Schema analysis reports
-│   └── submissions/               # Monthly submission archives
-│       ├── RS_2005-06.zst ── RS_2025-12.zst  # 20+ years of submissions
-│       └── schema_analysis/
+├── original_dump/                     # Raw downloaded Reddit archives
+│   ├── comments/                      # Monthly comment archives (ZST compressed)
+│   │   ├── RC_2005-12.zst ── RC_2025-12.zst  # Complete 2005-2025 coverage
+│   │   └── schema_analysis/           # Schema analysis directory
+│   └── submissions/                   # Monthly submission archives
+│       ├── RS_2005-06.zst ── RS_2025-12.zst  # Complete 2005-2025 coverage
+│       └── schema_analysis/           # Schema evolution analysis reports
 │           ├── analysis_report_2005.txt
-│           └── ... (2006-2018)
+│           └── ...
 │
-├── reddit-media/                  # Comprehensive media archive
-│   ├── content-hashed/            # Deduplicated media storage
-│   ├── images/                    # Image media organized by date
-│   │   └── 2025/
-│   │       └── 01/
-│   │           └── 01/           # Daily image collections
-│   ├── thumbnails/                # Thumbnail versions
-│   └── videos/                    # Video media
+├── subreddits_2025-01_*               # Subreddit metadata (January 2025 snapshot)
+│   ├── type_public.jsonl              # 2.78M public subreddits
+│   ├── type_restricted.jsonl          # 1.92M restricted subreddits
+│   ├── type_private.jsonl             # 182K private subreddits
+│   └── type_other.jsonl               # 100 other/archived subreddits
 │
-├── subreddits_2025-01_*           # Subreddit metadata (Jan 2025 snapshot)
-│   ├── type_public.jsonl          # 2.78M public subreddits
-│   ├── type_restricted.jsonl      # 1.92M restricted subreddits
-│   ├── type_private.jsonl         # 182K private subreddits
-│   ├── type_user.jsonl            # 16.98M user subreddits (profiles)
-│   └── type_other.jsonl           # 100 other/archived
-│
-├── .gitattributes                 # Git LFS configuration
-└── README.md                      # This file
+├── .gitattributes                     # Git LFS configuration for large files
+└── README.md                          # This documentation file
 ```
 
+
 ## 📈 Dataset Statistics
 
 ### Subreddit Ecosystem (January 2025)
@@ -94,7 +93,7 @@ A comprehensive pipeline for archiving, processing, and analyzing Reddit data fr
 - Field-by-field statistical analysis
 - Type distribution tracking
 - Null/empty value profiling
-- Schema evolution tracking (2005-2018 complete)
+- Schema evolution tracking (2005-2018 complete more coming soon)
 
 ### Stage 3: Format Conversion
 - ZST → JSONL decompression
@@ -180,33 +179,6 @@ A comprehensive pipeline for archiving, processing, and analyzing Reddit data fr
 - **Moderation scale:** 32% removed by Reddit, 36% by moderators
 - **Media evolution:** Video posts growing (3% in Jan 2025)
 
-## 🚀 Getting Started
-
-### Prerequisites
-- 100+ TB storage (recommended)
-- Python 3.9+ with pandas, pyarrow, zstandard
-- Apache Spark (optional, for large-scale processing)
-- Git LFS for media storage
-
-### Basic Usage
-```bash
-# Analyze schema of a monthly file
-python analyze_schema.py original_dump/comments/RC_2025-01.zst
-
-# Convert to Parquet format
-python convert_to_parquet.py original_dump/comments/RC_2025-01.zst converted_parquet/comments/2025/
-
-# Analyze subreddit distribution
-python analyze_subreddits.py subreddits_2025-01.jsonl
-```
-
-### Processing Pipeline
-1. Download monthly archives to `original_dump/`
-2. Run schema analysis for quality assessment
-3. Convert to partitioned Parquet format
-4. Categorize and analyze subreddit metadata
-5. Extract and organize media content
-6. Conduct focused community studies
 
 ## 📄 License & Attribution
 
@@ -252,9 +224,3 @@ tools for Reddit historical data (2005-2025). GitHub Repository.
 - Cross-platform comparative studies
 
 ---
-**Maintained by:** Reddit Research Group  
-**Last Updated:** January 2026  
-**Data Coverage:** December 2005 - December 2025  
-**Total Volume:** ~150 TB (raw), ~40 TB (processed)
-
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