Data repository for Master's Thesis on Opinion Leader Detection in Limited Social Networks

This data repository supports the replication of my Master’s thesis research on detecting the influence of opinion leaders in limited social networks. For each of the two runs it includes all intermediate and final outputs generated in the different steps of the analysis pipeline. The input data files, "comments.parquet" , contain cleaned and filtered comments, which were derived from the original datasets: Dornel, B. (2021). New York Times Articles & Comments (2020), Version 1 [Data set]. Kaggle. Retrieved February 29, 2024, from https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/benjaminawd/new-york-times-articles-comments-2020 and Schabus, D., Skowron, M., & Trapp, M. (2017, August). One million posts: A data set of German online discussions [Data set]. In Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (pp. 1241-1244). https://www.ofai.at/resources/1m_posts