Venues, placers only
Authoritative source, reproduced unchanged. Exact Markdown · Agent copy with resolved links · The files: data/venues-placers/. These instructions govern research runs, not checkpoint interviews. They keep the run's own words: a room is a community, a mark an artwork, the analyst the aggregator, the case lead the community coder and the global model the population model.
One file per subreddit: every record a placer account wrote there in
the 24 days, and nothing by anyone else. Built from users/,
not by sweeping the subreddit, so it reaches venues no sweep did: the
study's copy has 50,936 venues (13.6 GB), twice raw24's count and a
third of its records. It is the right denominator for anything about
placers; raw24 mixes placers with the rest of the community.
Same format as raw24: <sub>.jsonl sorted by time,
and <sub>.manifest.json with counts per day;
kind kept, segment dropped (the time is in
created_utc; a boundary is a filter, never a file).
Build it:
python3 venues-placers/build_aggregate.py (reads
users/, writes here; two passes through shards, so memory
stays at one shard).
Screening: this store is how the study found where r/place was discussed: every venue a placer wrote in during the canvas.
Tested 2026-09-26: built from the three test accounts: 41 venues, 477 records.
Codebook
Every text record is one Reddit item as the arctic-shift archive holds it, unprojected. The fields the study reads:
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
kind |
post or comment, added at collection |
id, name |
the item's id, and the same with its type prefix (t3_
post, t1_ comment) |
created_utc |
seconds since 1970, UTC |
author |
the account name; [deleted] when the account was gone
before the archive took the item |
subreddit, subreddit_id |
where it was written |
title, selftext |
a post's title and text |
body |
a comment's text |
link_id, parent_id |
a comment's thread and the item it answers |
score, ups, gilded,
stickied, distinguished,
edited |
as Reddit reported them when the archive took the item |
retrieved_on |
when the archive took it |
The other fields (flair, media, flags) are kept as served and not read.
<sub>.manifest.json: as raw24's, with
built_from in place of the sources.