Overview

Why is it so hard to be productive?

An analysis of 1,000 of r/nosurf's top posts and their 9,910 top comments, focusing on topics, sentiment, and concerns. Analyses use a combination of clustering algorithms, autoencoders, and sentiment analysis to understand why people are struggling to be productive, and how the community is handling these concerns.

Most Posts & Comments are Negative

Posts and comments were classified as either positive, negative, or neutral using a fine-tuned RoBERTa model. Although both the posts and comments were majority negative, comments had a higher proportion of neutral and positive sentiments compared to posts.

Lots of Complaints Made and Questions Asked

In addition to classifying posts as positive, neutral or negative, each post and comment was also classified as either questions, information or advice, complaints, praises, or discussions. From this analysis, it was found that posts were dominated by complaints, which aligns with the finding of majority negative posts, followed by questions and information. Similarly, the top 3 categories in the comments included questions, complaints, and information.

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