MentalHealth-GeoAnalysis

MentalHealth-GeoAnalysis is a Python-based project that fetches and analyzes top Reddit posts from selected mental health-related subreddits. It aims to uncover geographic trends in mental health discussions through data cleaning, analysis, and interactive visualizations.

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📌 Table of Contents

• Features
• Technologies Used
• Installation
• Setup
• Usage & Results
• Notebooks Included

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🚀 Features

• 🔍 Reddit Scraper:
  Uses PRAW (Python Reddit API Wrapper) to fetch top posts from specified mental health-focused subreddits.

• 🔐 Secure API Access:
  Authenticates using environment variables to protect your Reddit API credentials.

• 🧹 Data Cleaning & Analysis:
  Cleans and processes Reddit data for accurate analysis, removing noise and irrelevant content.

• 🗺️ Geo Visualization:
  Generates an interactive HTML map (reddit_crisis_map_final.html) highlighting posts with geographical context to visualize mental health crisis trends.

• 🕵️ PII Removal:
  Utilizes Microsoft Presidio in a Jupyter notebook (PII_Removal.ipynb) to anonymize personal information.

• 📊 Reproducible Analysis:
  A Jupyter notebook (CodeFile.ipynb) for exploratory analysis and visual storytelling.

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🛠️ Installation

Clone the repository and install the required dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/OnePunchMonk/MentalHealth-GeoAnalysis.git
cd MentalHealth-GeoAnalysis
pip install praw pandas geopandas jupyter

🧰 Technologies Used

Tool / Library	Purpose
Python	Core programming language
PRAW	Reddit API integration
Pandas	Data manipulation and analysis
GeoPandas	Geospatial data processing
Jupyter Notebook	Interactive analysis and documentation
Microsoft Presidio	PII detection and anonymization
HTML/Leaflet.js	Interactive geographic visualization

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⚙️ Setup

1. Reddit API Authentication:

   • Create a .env file in the project root directory.
   • Add your Reddit API credentials:

     CLIENT_ID=your_client_id
     CLIENT_SECRET=your_client_secret
     USER_AGENT=your_user_agent

2. Run the data collection and analysis scripts as needed (see notebooks).

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📈 Usage & Results

• Processed datasets are saved as:

  • cleaned_reddit_posts_final.csv
  • cleaned_reddit_posts_final.json

• To explore the interactive map, open:

  reddit_crisis_map_final.html
  

  in your browser to see a geographical visualization of Reddit posts related to mental health topics.

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📒 Notebooks Included

• CodeFile.ipynb: Core data exploration and visualization workflow.
• PII_Removal.ipynb: Uses Microsoft Presidio for identifying and removing personally identifiable information (PII).