Reddit Financial Subreddits Dataset 2008–2020
A Reddit dataset of 8,035,392 comments across 6 financial subreddits, 2008–2020, collected by Zenodo contributor via Pushshift Reddit API. Each record contains body text, subreddit, author, created_date, year, readability metrics (Fog index, avg words/sentence, avg syllables/word). 8M+ Reddit comments from r/personalfinance, r/Frugal, r/Economics, r/business, r/investing, and r/financialindependence spanning 2008–2020, pre-annotated with Gunning Fog readability scores.. Suitable for Financial discourse analysis, readability research, community language evolution, NLP on financial social media..
Cite this dataset at
reddit-financial-subreddits.echo.directory
Analytics
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Sampled: text metrics from 50K of 8M records; topic model from 20K.
Record
- Catalog key
reddit-financial-subreddits- Authors
- Lesmy, Danny
- Year
- 2025
- Source paper
- reddit comments from financial subreddits
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.5281/zenodo.15118235
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (CC-BY-4.0)
- Records
- 8,035,392
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2008/2020 (2000s, 2010s, 2020s)
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://zenodo.org/records/15118235 link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 3.4 GB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@misc{https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15118235,
doi = {10.5281/ZENODO.15118235},
url = {https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.15118235},
author = {Lesmy, Danny},
keywords = {reddit comments from financial subreddit communities},
language = {en},
title = {reddit comments from financial subreddits},
publisher = {Zenodo},
year = {2025},
copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Lesmy, D. (2025). Reddit Financial Subreddits Dataset 2008–2020 [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15118235
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Lesmy, Danny. Reddit Financial Subreddits Dataset 2008–2020. 2025, doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15118235.