The Internet's Best Experiment Yet
summary
Dataset of r/place includes 16.1M pixel changes by 1.2M unique users over 72 hours (2017) plus a larger 2022 release; raw records give timestamp color and location and an Atlas project map of community footprints. Predictive models in Python and explainability tools identify what predicts community success and engagement; one surprising claim is that moderated communities succeed more than laissez‑faire ones. Curated CSVs and trained models are released and the 2022 preprocessed dataset is available for further study.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:09Wall Street Bets significance
- 3:20Online communities power
- 5:52Our Place experiment
- 8:41Unexpected outcomes
- 11:10Data sources & methodology
- 13:18Predicting engagement
- 17:542022 Our Place overview
- 21:12Analyzing 2022 data
- 23:42Summary & future research
- 26:36Q&A
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