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license: mit |
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task_categories: |
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- text-classification |
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language: |
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- en |
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tags: |
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- reddit |
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- online dating |
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- discourse |
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- dating |
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- social media |
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pretty_name: The Reddit Online Dating Dataset (RODD) |
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size_categories: |
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- 100K<n<1M |
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# The Reddit Online Dating Dataset ( RODD) |
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The Reddit Online Dating Dataset (RODD) is a collection of 219000 English text-based Reddit submissions related to online dating. |
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## Dataset Details |
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### Dataset Description |
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RODD was created to study gender and age-based differences in experiences of online dating fatigue and online dating etiquette as part of my master's thesis @TUM: |
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"Online Dating Etiquette: An NLP-based Approach to Online Dating Discourses on Reddit" |
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We leveraged NLP-based methods to analyze the submissions both quantitatively and qualitatively, uncovering significant demographic differences in fatigue experiences. |
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The Reddit submissions in this dataset are related to online dating. Further, we show that a large number of submissions show signs of dating fatigue. Thus, the overall tone of the dataset is negative. |
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Online daters discuss topics related to online dating and share their negative experiences, give and receive advice, and seek support and orientation online. Many submission authors provide their opinion on existing behavioral rules in online dating. |
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- **Curated by:** [More Information Needed] |
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- **Funded by [optional]:** [More Information Needed] |
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- **Shared by [optional]:** [More Information Needed] |
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- **Language(s) (NLP):** [More Information Needed] |
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- **License:** [More Information Needed] |
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### Dataset Sources [optional] |
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RODD was created as part of a study @TUM on online dating fatigue and online dating etiquette: |
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"Online Dating Etiquette: An NLP-based Approach to Online Dating Discourses on Reddit" |
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- **Repository:** [More Information Needed] |
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- **Paper [optional]:** [More Information Needed] |
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- **Demo [optional]:** [More Information Needed] |
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## Uses |
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The dataset can be used for several NLP tasks, incl. classification and sentiment analysis. We further provide the dataset for future research on online dating. |
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"link_flair_text" are human gold labels for semantic and sentiment categorization, provided by the submission authors on creation when the subreddit enforces the topical categorization of new submissions. |
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Sentiment analysis with SiEBERT shows that models are generally able to detect intricacies in text from our dataset. |
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### Direct Use |
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[More Information Needed] |
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### Out-of-Scope Use |
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[More Information Needed] |
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## Dataset Structure |
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- Column - Description - Data type |
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- author - Account that created the submission. - str |
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- created - Time of creation. - datetime |
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- created_utc - UTC timestamp of creation time. - float |
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- downs - Number of downvotes. - float |
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- extraction_keywords - The keywords that led to the extraction of the submission. - array[str] |
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- gilded - Number of gildings. - float |
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- id - Unique submission identifier. Primary Key. - str |
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- is_crosspostable - If the submission is crosspostable to other subreddits. - bool |
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- link_flair_text - Category of the submission. (If categorization is supported.) - str |
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- num_comments - Number of comments. - int |
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- num_crossposts - Number of crossposts. - float |
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- permalink - Internal Reddit permalink. - str |
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- score - Difference of upvotes and downvotes. - int |
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- selftext - Text of the submission. - str |
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- subreddit - Subreddit name. - str |
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- subreddit_id - Subreddit identifier. - str |
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- title - Title of the submission - str |
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- ups - Number of upvotes. - float |
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- upvote_ratio - Upvotes / Downvotes - float |
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- url - URL of the submission. - str |
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## Dataset Creation |
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### Curation Rationale |
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In order to study online dating fatigue and etiquette related to online dating, this dataset was created by scraping Reddit submissions using keywords related to online dating. The keyword set was iteratively refined to ensure high precision in selecting relevant submissions while capturing a broad range of discussions within the online dating discourse. Subreddits were hand-selected for scraping based on two criteria: 1) high activity and member count, indicating general popularity. 2) As indicated in community guidelines, A second group of subreddits was selected based on self-reported specific demographic focus. |
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### Language Variety |
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The submissions were extracted in late 2024 from English-speaking subreddits. While information about the varieties and dialects used is not available, it is most likely that all mainstream forms of English are included. |
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### Speaker Demographic |
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Reddit encourages anonymity, making it impossible to characterize the demographics of this dataset's 140000 unique accounts. However, it is advised to consider the demographics of both general Reddit users and online dating app users when using this data. Based on observations, this dataset contains submissions written by both females and males, many gender identities, ethnicities, people of different socioeconomic backgrounds, and different age groups ranging from teenagers to individuals over 50. A great proportion of submissions is most likely from Western societies. Some of the included subreddits do not specify their intended member demographic, while others define themselves as communities for either female or male audiences or specific age groups. |
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### Speech Situation |
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This dataset comprises written, sometimes edited submissions published before October 2024. During the creation of this dataset, all submissions of the selected subreddits were used for scraping, collecting submissions created between early 2010 and September 2024. Users submit to seek advice, initiate discussions, share experiences and opinions, and ask questions about online dating. Reddit facilitates a "roughly synchronous" interaction setting where users submit and respond within a threaded format, with response times varying from minutes to days. |
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### Text Characteristics |
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Each submission includes a non-empty title and a non-empty text body (selftext). Overall text length varies with a mean and standard deviation of 1300 characters per submission. 1300 characters roughly translate to 200-260 words in English texts. |
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### Provenance Appendix |
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This data was extracted from "Pushshift Dumps", a publicly available archive of Reddit data collected over time via the Pushshift API. The Pushshift API provides researchers and moderators access to historical Reddit data, including submissions and comments, mirroring the official Reddit data that is not publicly accessible. |
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### Source Data |
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#### Data Collection and Processing |
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The submissions of RODD were extracted through a keyword-based filtering approach on all submissions in the following subreddits: |
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- r/dating_advice |
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- r/dating |
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- r/OnlineDating |
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- r/datingoverthirty |
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- r/datingoverforty |
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- r/datingoverfifty |
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- r/AskMen |
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- r/AskWomen |
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- r/TwoXChromosomes |
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We used the following keywords to match submission titles and selftext: |
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## Bias, Risks, and Limitations |
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RODD comprises a large portion of negative Reddit submissions. Self-selection bias leads to a concentration of fatigued online daters from Western societies in \ac{RODD}. Thus, content related to online dating fatigue is more prevalent than in other discourses or demographics. This content is specific to the Reddit online dating discourse. |
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[More Information Needed] |
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### Recommendations |
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## Citation [optional] |
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## Glossary [optional] |
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## More Information [optional] |
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## Dataset Card Authors [optional] |
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## Dataset Card Contact |
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