Reddit Corpus (Small) — 100 Active Subreddits
A Reddit dataset of 297,132 utterances from 119,889 speakers across 100 subreddits, collected by Cornell University via ConvoKit. Each record contains utterance text, speaker, conversation thread, subreddit. Conversation corpus from 100 active subreddits with thread structure. Suitable for conversation analysis, community dynamics, discourse analysis.
Cite this dataset at
reddit-small.echo.directory
Analytics
Topic 0
Topic 1
Topic 2
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Sampled: text metrics from 50K of 292.6K records; topic model from 20K.
Record
- Catalog key
reddit_small- Authors
- Chang, Jonathan P.; Chiam, Caleb; Fu, Liye; Wang, Andrew; Zhang, Justine; Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Cristian
- Year
- 2020
- Source paper
- ConvoKit: A Toolkit for the Analysis of Conversations
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.18653/v1/2020.sigdial-1.8
- License
- CC BY 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0)
- Records
- 297,132
- Nodes are
- user
- Edges are
- reply
- Text corpus
- comment text
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2020 (2020s)
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://convokit.cornell.edu/documentation/reddit-small.html link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-16, 36.2 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
ConvoKit: A Toolkit for the Analysis of Conversations
Jonathan P. Chang, Caleb Chiam, Liye Fu, Andrew Z. Wang, Justine Zhang
Journal Article · SIGDIAL Conferences · 2020
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Citation data from Semantic Scholar, retrieved 2026-10-22.
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}
}
@inproceedings{Chang_2020,
title = {ConvoKit: A Toolkit for the Analysis of Conversations},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.sigdial-1.8},
doi = {10.18653/v1/2020.sigdial-1.8},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue},
publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
author = {Chang, Jonathan P. and Chiam, Caleb and Fu, Liye and Wang, Andrew and Zhang, Justine and Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Cristian},
year = {2020},
pages = {57–60}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Chang, J. P., Chiam, C., Fu, L., Wang, A., Zhang, J., & Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, C. (2020). Reddit Corpus (Small) — 100 Active Subreddits [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.sigdial-1.8
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Chang, Jonathan P., et al. Reddit Corpus (Small) — 100 Active Subreddits. 2020, doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.sigdial-1.8.