In 2021 GameStop (gme), Clover (clov) and AMC shares have seen unusual short squeeze activity leading to extreme stock price moves with heavy volumes. At the same time retail investors have been extremely busy on reddit.com platform. This video shows how to use R software and obtain data from reddit and develop network diagram and carry out sentiment analysis of comments related to GameStop, Clover and AMC. This could be an excellent starting point for a project, research article or more.
Link to R file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GQjBp_ASVDoGWoqFU8pqQR2K4LVDLfjs/view?usp=sharing

Topics include:
- obtaining reddit.com data
- network diagram
- sentiment analysis

R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics, and is widely used by both academia and industry. R software works on both Windows and Mac-OS. It was ranked no. 1 in a KDnuggets poll on top languages for analytics, data mining, and data science. RStudio is a user friendly environment for R that has become popular.