How to extract keywords from Reddit Community Channels using generative AI

Keyword Identification

As a data analyst, you are always looking for new ways to gather insights and trends from data. Reddit is a treasure trove of information, with thousands of communities discussing a wide variety of topics. However, manually sifting through these conversations to identify important insights can be time-consuming and inefficient. In this post, we’ll show you how to use generative AI to automatically extract keywords from Reddit community channels.

What is Keyword Extraction?

Keyword extraction is a natural language processing (NLP) technique that involves identifying the most important or relevant words or phrases in a piece of text. You can use it to extract key information and themes from text has many applications, such as search engine optimization (SEO), content analysis, and topic modeling.

Keyword extraction can be performed manually, but it can also be automated using machine learning algorithms. These algorithms learn to recognize patterns and features in the text that are associated with important words or phrases, and can be trained on a labeled dataset of text.

You can use keyword extraction to analyze and summarize large amounts of text data to quickly identify the most important information and themes.

Example Use Cases

Use cases for extracting keywords from Reddit community channels include:

Identifying trends and popular topics within a community
Understanding the sentiment and tone of conversations
Identifying influential users and moderators
Discovering potential marketing opportunities or partnerships
Identifying areas for product development or improvement

Teams that might find these use cases helpful include: marketing, product, customer support, and community management.

Accessing and Analyzing Reddit Community Channels

The first step in extracting keywords from Reddit community channels is to access the data. This can be done using the Reddit API, which allows you to programmatically access and download data from Reddit. You can specify the subreddit, date range, and other filters to download the specific data you’re interested in. For more information on the Reddit API, see here.

Once you’ve downloaded the data, you can use a generative AI tool to automatically extract and analyze keywords. These tools use machine learning algorithms to identify important words and phrases in the text, and can provide insights into the sentiment, tone, and themes of the conversations.

Before running the data through the generative AI tool, it can be helpful to identify some preliminary keywords that you may want to extract. These could be related to specific topics, products, or competitors that are relevant to your business. You can use these keywords to filter the data before running it through the tool, or to analyze the results more effectively.

Once you’ve extracted the keywords, you can use them to generate insights and trends from the data. For example, you may find that a specific product feature or topic is being discussed more frequently than others, indicating a potential opportunity for development or improvement.

Using AirOps to perform Keyword Identification

With AirOps, you can easily extract relevant keywords and phrases from your text-based data using the Keyword Identifier data app. Here's how:

Select "Keyword Identifier" from the Data Apps page. The input required for Keyword Identifier is the "text_field" which is the input text data.
Decide where you want the analysis to be performed and stored. The Keyword Identifier data app can be easily used in the AirOps Data App page and via API, but in this example, the analysis will be performed in Snowflake through an external function called AIROPS_KEYWORD_IDENTIFIER.

Here is an example SQL query:
```
SELECT
AIROPS_KEYWORD_IDENTIFIER(text_field) as result
FROM
your_table
```
Execute the keyword extraction analysis by running the SQL query. The output will contain an array of keywords and phrases extracted from the input text data.

Example Input:

"Hello, I am having trouble with my account. I cannot seem to log in and I have tried resetting my password multiple times."

Example Output:
```
"keywords": ["trouble", "account", "log in", "resetting", "password", "multiple times"],"summary": "A customer is having trouble logging into their account and has tried resetting their password multiple times."
```

Using AirOps to perform Sentiment Analysis

With AirOps, you can easily perform sentiment analysis on any text data such as reviews, support tickets, or sales calls using Sentiment Analyzer. Here’s how:

Select "Sentiment Analyzer" from the Data Apps page. The only input for Sentiment Analyzer is some text to analyze.
Decide where you want the analysis to be performed and stored. The Sentiment Analyzer data app can be easily used in the AirOps Data App page and via API, but in this example, the analysis will be performed in Snowflake through an external function called AIROPS_SENTIMENT_ANALYZER.

Here is an example SQL query:
```
SELECT
AIROPS_SENTIMENT_ANALYZER(text_field) as result
FROM
your_table
```
Execute the sentiment analysis by running the SQL query. The output will contain a sentiment score and sentiment summary, as well as a list of positive and negative keywords extracted from the input text data.
Input:
"I'm sorry to say that I had a terrible experience with your product. The customer service was unresponsive and the product didn't work as advertised."
Output:
```
"positive_keywords": [],"negative_keywords": ["terrible experience", "customer service", "unresponsive", "product", "didn't work", "advertised"],"score": -0.8,"sentiment": "Very Negative"
```

Using AirOps to perform Text Classification

With AirOps, you can easily perform classification using generative AI. Here’s how:

Select "Text Classifier'' from the Data Apps page. Below are the possible inputs for Text Classifier.text_field: The input text data.categories (optional): Categories can be specified as a comma-separated list. Leave empty for automatic determination.multi_category: Set to “true” if the text can belong to multiple categories, or “false” if it can only belong to one category.
Decide where you want the analysis to be performed and stored. The Text Classifier data app can be easily used in the AirOps Data App page and via API, but in this example, the analysis will be performed in Snowflake through an external function called AIROPS_CLASSIFIER.

Here is an example SQL query:
```
SELECT
AIROPS_CLASSIFIER(text_field, categories, multi_category) as result
FROM
your_table
```
Execute the classification analysis by running the SQL query. The output will contain a list of keywords extracted from the input text data that are relevant to the identified categories and a list of categories that the input text data belongs to based on the provided categories or automatic determination.

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