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Agreed, I submitted the same link with the title "Semantic Analysis of Donald Trump Sub-Reddits," but even that leaves out the fascinating idea of "subbreddit algebra" that the article goes into. Articles like these are why I love 538. It's like popular science for statistical analysis.

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Me too, too!

Not only is this a really cool and novel (as far as I know) use of machine learning techniques, there's a lengthy footnote that goes into some detail about the method. And the presentation is great, very slick modern HTML.

So it seems like an excellent fit for HN, apart from the title which will unfortunately put a lot of people off.

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