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Number of posts with a score of 1000 or higher in :

How does this work?

Reddit is a very popular community website that started in January 2006 and has seen over 215 million submissions of links and self-posts until December 2015. From this massive dataset all posts that reached a score of 1000 or higher were extracted and grouped by subreddit, day of the week and hour of the day to show what times are the most likely for submitting a successful post.

This tool lets you explore when the top scoring submissions for 475 different subreddits where posted in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). It includes NSFW and a few subreddits, that were deleted at some point. To be included a subreddit must have at least 70 posts with the minimum score in the given time frame.

This punchcard style chart shows the absolute number of submissions, that reached +1000 points per subreddit not the proportion of successful post. I may revise this in a future revision of this tool or add an option to show relative or absolute numbers.

Credits

The reddit post corpus was assembled by Jason Baumgartner and made available via Google's BigQuery interface by Felipe Hoffa. For more details on how the data was retrieved and processed check out this Jupyter notebook, which also references posts that inspired my original analysis.

The punchcard style visualization was created with D3.js, the d3.legend plugin, jQuery autoComplete and uses code from this gist by David Hazinski.