Welcome to the repository for the project "Perceptions towards Bioplastics: Insights from Sentiment Analysis on Reddit". This project explores public sentiment and perceptions surrounding bioplastics using data from Reddit, analyzing key emotions, word usage trends, and potential correlations.

This repository contains the following scripts:

Description: Connects to the Reddit API using the PRAW library to extract relevant comments from Reddit posts about bioplastics.

Description: Cleans and preprocesses the extracted comments, then performs sentiment analysis using the NRCLex library to classify emotions.

Description: Calculates and identifies the top 30 words used in the comments for each emotion, year, and quarter.

Description: Analyzes potential correlations between the word count of Reddit comments and the emotions expressed within them.