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Toxicity Scores & Embeddings

Search and explore comments with their Perspective API toxicity/prosocial scores alongside AI sentiment labels.

Communalytic | Toxicity & prosocial scores, embeddings, and clusters generated via Communalytic (Social Media Lab, Toronto Metropolitan University) using Google's Perspective API.
Toxicity Scored
55,769
9.3% of 596,542 total
Prosocial Scored
54,229
Embeddings
55,418
403 clusters
Avg Tox / Con
0.245 / 0.328

Summary Charts

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All 13 Dimensions

Score Distribution

Scored: 55,769
Unscored: 596,542 remaining
9.3% complete
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Active: "Canada. The India of the …" 853 comments · Page 35 of 35
Stop people outside from outside Canada from buying up our homes, this is the issue. China and India own too much in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. They are raising up the cost of living through …
Stop people outside from outside Canada from buying up our homes, this is the issue. China and India own too much in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. They are raising up the cost of living through their greediness
· 2: Cluster #1
Close reading → Video sentiment →
Identity Attack0.00038317507
Insult0.0040671253
Profanity0.000058668196
Threat0.0000607873
Severe Toxicity0.0000020598457
Low Tox 0.0077626333
Apr 18, 2025 22 likes
Canada used and earned money from international students and put so many rules them to leave. Canada doesn't want educated ppl they want refugees to run their country. Those who doesn't even have any language …
Canada used and earned money from international students and put so many rules them to leave. Canada doesn't want educated ppl they want refugees to run their country. Those who doesn't even have any language Proficiency. This country is run by headless ppl. They have to enrol int. Students from other countries not only India. Iran , Sudan they give easy work permit and PR. But those who did Masters studies no points.
· 3: Cluster #2
Close reading → Discourse → Video sentiment →
Identity Attack0.000442064
Insult0.00022481215
Profanity0.00003744095
Threat0.000044459546
Severe Toxicity0.000002927076
Low Tox 0.00088779686 Policy_Critique
Apr 19, 2025 1 likes
Good, there are too many from India and China here. Recently, I have seen some Chinese leaving from my own neighbour. This is a good thing, they come over here, don't speak English, don't work …
Good, there are too many from India and China here. Recently, I have seen some Chinese leaving from my own neighbour. This is a good thing, they come over here, don't speak English, don't work and use our resources that we have paid for all of our working lives. Our local college which used to pay for English lessons for Newcomers to Canada has now cancelled the program.
· 1: Outliers
Close reading → Video sentiment →
Identity Attack0.0010168551
Insult0.00017304033
Profanity0.00003081157
Threat0.00005803413
Severe Toxicity0.0000042457577
Low Tox 0.0007665064
Apr 17, 2025 2 likes

Perspective API Dimensions Reference

13 dimensions explained

Toxic (6)

Toxicity
— Rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable
Severe Toxicity
— Very hateful or aggressive
Identity Attack
— Targeting race, religion, gender, etc.
Insult
— Inflammatory or provocative language
Profanity
— Swear words or obscene language
Threat
— Intention to inflict pain or violence

Prosocial (7)

Affinity
— Agreement or shared understanding
Compassion
— Concern for others' wellbeing
Curiosity
— Desire to learn or understand more
Nuance
— Acknowledges complexity or multiple perspectives
Personal Story
— Shares personal experience
Reasoning
— Evidence-based or logical argumentation
Respect
— Politeness and consideration for others
Data sources: comment_perspective_scores, comment_embeddings, and view_comment_sentiment · Scores are probability values (0–1) from Google's Perspective API via Communalytic.