Spencer Bryson

MSc Computer Science graduate from Ontario Tech University. Previously a research assistant for the Data Science Lab and student fellow at IBM Centre for Advanced Studies.

Interests includes: ML/AI Techniques Databases Data Science Big Data Information Visualization Distributed Computing

MEANRedd is a tool designed to discover and visualize meaningful topics on Reddit.

Scrapes a specified subreddit for post data
Scores words based on their 'meaningfulness', a combination of both the frequency and post karma
Discovers common topics of discussion using Apriori, a frequent itemsets mining algorithm
Visualizes a word association network, using force directed graph layouts in d3.js