Brexit Opinion Dynamics (r/Brexit)
A Reddit dataset of 5,024 annotated comments, 809,713 total comments, collected by Behavioral Data Science Lab. Each record contains comment text, stance labels, interaction graphs, polarity scores. r/Brexit subreddit with crowd-annotated stance labels and temporal interaction graphs. Suitable for political polarization, opinion dynamics, stance detection.
Cite this dataset at
brexit-reddit.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 6,966 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
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Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
brexit_reddit- Authors
- Rizoiu, Marian-Andrei; Khuu, Duy; Law, Andrew; Largeron, Christine
- Year
- 2026
- Source paper
- Brexit Means Brexit: Selection Bias, Echo Chambers, and Entrenched Opinion on Reddit
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.48550/arxiv.2603.07509
- License
- CC BY 4.0 (annotations); Reddit text subject to Reddit's terms (CC-BY-4.0)
- Records
- 5,024
- Nodes
- 6,966
- Edges
- 45,840
- Nodes are
- user
- Edges are
- reply
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2015-11 to 2021-02 (2010s, 2020s)
- Tasks
- Stance detection (multi-class;
stance_label, stance) inferred
From the graph: link prediction, community detection - Region
- United Kingdom · Europe (inferred: named in the description)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://github.com/behavioral-ds/brexit-opinion-dynamics link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 19.8 MB across 84 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
Brexit Means Brexit: Selection Bias, Echo Chambers, and Entrenched Opinion on Reddit
M. Rizoiu, Duy Khuu, Andrew Law, Christine Largeron
Journal Article · arXiv.org · 2026
Citation data from Semantic Scholar, retrieved 2026-10-19.
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/10.48550/arxiv.2603.07509,
doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2603.07509},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07509},
author = {Rizoiu, Marian-Andrei and Khuu, Duy and Law, Andrew and Largeron, Christine},
keywords = {Computers and Society (cs.CY), Social and Information Networks (cs.SI), FOS: Computer and information sciences, FOS: Computer and information sciences},
title = {Brexit Means Brexit: Selection Bias, Echo Chambers, and Entrenched Opinion on Reddit},
publisher = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
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
Rizoiu, M.-A., Khuu, D., Law, A., & Largeron, C. (2026). Brexit Opinion Dynamics (r/Brexit) [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2603.07509
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Rizoiu, Marian-Andrei, et al. Brexit Opinion Dynamics (r/Brexit). 2026, doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2603.07509.