A Study Of Reddit Politics

This article was written for The Data Incubator by Jay Kaiser, a Fellow of our 2018 Winter cohort in Washington, DC who landed a job with our hiring partner, ZeniMax Online Studios, as a Big Data Engineer. The 2016 Presidential Election was, in a single word, weird. So much happened during the months leading up to November that it became difficult to keep track with what who said when and why. However, the finale of the election that culminated with Republican candidate Donald J. Trump winning the majority of the Electoral College and hence becoming the 45th President of the United States was an outcome which at the time I had thought impossible, if solely due to the aforementioned eccentric series of events that had circulated around Trump for a majority of his candidacy. Following the election, the prominent question that could not leave my mind was a simple one: how?