Datasets:

ylelauta
/

pol-4chan-augmented

dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: thread_no
      dtype: int64
    - name: archived_on
      dtype: int64
    - name: semantic_url
      dtype: string
    - name: 'no'
      dtype: int64
    - name: resto
      dtype: int64
    - name: time
      dtype: int64
    - name: now
      dtype: string
    - name: name
      dtype: string
    - name: trip
      dtype: string
    - name: sub
      dtype: string
    - name: com
      dtype: string
    - name: country
      dtype: string
    - name: country_name
      dtype: string
    - name: filename
      dtype: string
    - name: ext
      dtype: string
    - name: fsize
      dtype: int64
    - name: md5
      dtype: string
    - name: w
      dtype: int32
    - name: h
      dtype: int32
    - name: tn_w
      dtype: int32
    - name: tn_h
      dtype: int32
    - name: tim
      dtype: int64
    - name: replies
      dtype: int32
    - name: images
      dtype: int32
    - name: bumplimit
      dtype: int32
    - name: imagelimit
      dtype: int32
    - name: archived
      dtype: int32
    - name: closed
      dtype: int32
    - name: toxicity
      dtype: float32
    - name: severe_toxicity
      dtype: float32
    - name: inflammatory
      dtype: float32
    - name: profanity
      dtype: float32
    - name: insult
      dtype: float32
    - name: obscene
      dtype: float32
    - name: spam
      dtype: float32
    - name: entities
      dtype: string
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_bytes: 19440000000
      num_examples: 134529233
  download_size: 19440000000
  dataset_size: 134529233
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/train-*-of-00270.parquet
license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
  - text-classification
language:
  - en
tags:
  - 4chan
  - toxicity
  - perspective-api
  - named-entities
  - political
pretty_name: /pol/ 4chan Augmented (Jun 2016 - Nov 2019)
size_categories:
  - 100M<n<1B

/pol/ 4chan Augmented Dataset

134.5M posts from 3.4M threads on 4chan's /pol/ board (June 2016 - November 2019), augmented with Perspective API toxicity scores and named entity recognition.

Dataset Description

This dataset contains posts from 4chan's Politically Incorrect (/pol/) board, collected between June 2016 and November 2019. Each post has been augmented with:

Perspective API toxicity scores (7 dimensions): toxicity, severe_toxicity, inflammatory, profanity, insult, obscene, spam
Named Entity Recognition: extracted entities stored as JSON arrays

Source

Original data from Papasavva et al. (2020) — "Raiders of the Lost Kek: 3.5 Years of Augmented 4chan Posts from the Politically Incorrect Board".

Format

270 parquet shards with zstd compression (~70MB each). The dataset is directly loadable with HuggingFace datasets:

from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("ylelauta/pol-4chan-augmented")

Schema

Field	Type	Description
`thread_no`	int64	Thread number (from OP)
`no`	int64	Post number
`resto`	int64	0 = OP, >0 = reply-to thread number
`time`	int64	Unix timestamp
`com`	string	Comment HTML
`country` / `country_name`	string	Poster's country flag
`sub`	string	Subject (OP only)
`name` / `trip`	string	Poster identity
`filename` / `ext` / `fsize` / `md5` / `w` / `h` / `tim`	mixed	Image metadata
`replies` / `images`	int32	Thread stats (OP only)
`toxicity`	float32	Perspective API toxicity score (0-1)
`severe_toxicity`	float32	Severe toxicity score
`inflammatory`	float32	Inflammatory score
`profanity`	float32	Profanity score
`insult`	float32	Insult score
`obscene`	float32	Obscene score
`spam`	float32	Spam score
`entities`	string	JSON array of named entities

Statistics

134,529,233 posts
3,397,911 threads
270 parquet shards
Date range: June 2016 - November 2019

Citation

@inproceedings{papasavva2020raiders,
  title={Raiders of the Lost Kek: 3.5 Years of Augmented 4chan Posts from the Politically Incorrect Board},
  author={Papasavva, Antonis and Zannettou, Savvas and De Cristofaro, Emiliano and Stringhini, Gianluca and Blackburn, Jeremy},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
  year={2020}
}

License

CC-BY-4.0 (following the original dataset license)