I've done work in this area (example from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8425385 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8425385) and it wouldn't be to

I've done work in this area (example from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8425385 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8425385) and it wouldn't be too terrible to do a data viz on comment count trajectory on a thread given a certain keyword. Granted, given the responses to my previous work, it would likely not be well-received and it might be too niche for the effort involved.