Center for Spatial Studies

Place connectivity is explored between geographic locations extracted from comments on Reddit. Unlike formally structured geographic data, this corpus of unstructured text provides connections derived from co-occurring locations, capturing subconscious links between them, alongside inherent biases. Our work demonstrates the ability to link locations mentioned by unique users, building ‘mental’ place connections for over 50,000 unique locations in the United Kingdom. Sentiment regarding locations is compared against their levels of connectivity, demonstrating that user opinions regarding locations are likely drivers in mental place connectivity.