This dataset contains anonymized logs of user-level YouTube viewing activity, collected via Amazon Mechanical Turk. Each user in the dataset provided at least six months of their YouTube watch history, enabling longitudinal analysis of personal viewing patterns.

Each row in the dataset represents a single watch event and includes metadata such as: - the video ID - watch timestamp - whether the user was subscribed to the channel at the time - and whether the video was part of a playlist

This dataset is intended to support research in user behavior modeling, content recommendation systems, temporal video engagement, and personalized analytics.

The dataset accompanies the paper:

"A YouTube dataset with user-level usage data: Baseline characteristics and key insights"
Authors: Shruti Lall, Mohit Agarwal, Raghupathy Sivakumar
Conference: IEEE ICC 2020 – International Conference on Communications

If you use this dataset in your research, please cite the paper above.

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YouTube is the world's largest video-sharing platform, launched in 2005. It allows users to upload, view, and share videos, and has grown to be a central hub for content creators across various fields, including entertainment, education, music, and more. With over 2 billion logged-in users monthly, YouTube has become an essential platform for digital content and marketing.

The Top 1000 YouTube Channels Dataset captures detailed information about the top-performing YouTube channels globally. This dataset includes the following columns:

• Rank : The ranking of the YouTube channel based on its overall popularity and performance.
• Youtuber : The name of the YouTuber or the title of the YouTube channel.
• Subscribers : The total number of subscribers to the channel, indicating its reach and popularity.
• Video Views : The total number of video views the channel has accumulated, reflecting its engagement and audience interaction.
• Video Count : The total number of videos uploaded by the channel, showing the content volume produced.
• Category : The genre or category the channel belongs to, such as music, education, entertainment, etc.
• Started : The year the channel was created, providing insight into its longevity and growth over time.

This dataset is invaluable for analyzing trends, understanding content strategies, and benchmarking channel performances within the YouTube ecosystem.

As of February 2025, India was the country with the largest YouTube audience by far, with approximately 491 million users engaging with the popular social video platform. The United States followed, with around 253 million YouTube viewers. Brazil came in third, with 144 million users watching content on YouTube. The United Kingdom saw around 54.8 million internet users engaging with the platform in the examined period. What country has the highest percentage of YouTube users? In July 2024, the United Arab Emirates was the country with the highest YouTube penetration worldwide, as around 94 percent of the country's digital population engaged with the service. In 2024, YouTube counted around 100 million paid subscribers for its YouTube Music and YouTube Premium services. YouTube mobile markets In 2024, YouTube was among the most popular social media platforms worldwide. In terms of revenues, the YouTube app generated approximately 28 million U.S. dollars in revenues in the United States in January 2024, as well as 19 million U.S. dollars in Japan.

Context

YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service, created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—was bought by Google in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion and now operates as one of the company's subsidiaries. YouTube is the second most-visited website after Google Search, according to Alexa Internet rankings.

YouTube allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to playlists, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to other users. Available content includes video clips, TV show clips, music videos, short and documentary films, audio recordings, movie trailers, live streams, video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos.

YouTube (the world-famous video sharing website) maintains a list of the top trending videos on the platform. According to Variety magazine, “To determine the year’s top-trending videos, YouTube uses a combination of factors including measuring users interactions (number of views, shares, comments, and likes). Note that they’re not the most-viewed videos overall for the calendar year”. Top performers on the YouTube trending list are music videos (such as the famously virile “Gangam Style”), celebrity and/or reality TV performances, and the random dude-with-a-camera viral videos that YouTube is well-known for.

This dataset is a daily record of the top trending YouTube videos.

Note that this dataset is a structurally improved version of this dataset.

Acknowledgements

This dataset was collected using the YouTube API. This Description is cited in Wikipedia.

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This both the original .tfrecords and a Parquet representation of the YouTube 8 Million dataset. YouTube-8M is a large-scale labeled video dataset that consists of millions of YouTube video IDs, with high-quality machine-generated annotations from a diverse vocabulary of 3,800+ visual entities. It comes with precomputed audio-visual features from billions of frames and audio segments, designed to fit on a single hard disk. This dataset also includes the YouTube-8M Segments data from June 2019. This dataset is 'Lakehouse Ready'. Meaning, you can query this data in-place straight out of the Registry of Open Data S3 bucket. Deploy this dataset's corresponding CloudFormation template to create the AWS Glue Catalog entries into your account in about 30 seconds. That one step will enable you to interact with the data with AWS Athena, AWS SageMaker, AWS EMR, or join into your AWS Redshift clusters. More detail in (the documentation)[https://github.com/aws-samples/data-lake-as-code/blob/roda-ml/README.md.

YouTube was created in 2005, with the first video – Me at the Zoo - being uploaded on 23 April 2005. Since then, 1.3 billion people have set up YouTube accounts. In 2018, people watch nearly 5 billion videos each day. People upload 300 hours of video to the site every minute.

According to 2016 research undertaken by Pexeso, music only accounts for 4.3% of YouTube’s content. Yet it makes 11% of the views. Clearly, an awful lot of people watch a comparatively small number of music videos. It should be no surprise, therefore, that the most watched videos of all time on YouTube are predominantly music videos.

On August 13, BTS became the most-viewed artist in YouTube history, accumulating over 26.7 billion views across all their official channels. This count includes all music videos and dance practice videos.

Justin Bieber and Ed Sheeran now hold the records for second and third-highest views, with over 26 billion views each.

Currently, BTS’s most viewed videos are their music videos for “**Boy With Luv**,” “**Dynamite**,” and “**DNA**,” which all have over 1.4 billion views.

Headers of the Dataset Total = Total views (in millions) across all official channels Avg = Current daily average of all videos combined 100M = Number of videos with more than 100 million views

Youtube social network and ground-truth communities Dataset information Youtube is a video-sharing web site that includes a social network. In the Youtube social network, users form friendship each other and users can create groups which other users can join. We consider such user-defined groups as ground-truth communities. This data is provided by Alan Mislove et al.

We regard each connected component in a group as a separate ground-truth community. We remove the ground-truth communities which have less than 3 nodes. We also provide the top 5,000 communities with highest quality which are described in our paper. As for the network, we provide the largest connected component.

more info : https://snap.stanford.edu/data/com-Youtube.html

Youtube social network and ground-truth communities

https://snap.stanford.edu/data/com-Youtube.html

Dataset information

Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/) is a video-sharing web site that includes a social network. In the Youtube social network, users form friendship each other and users can create groups which other users can join. We consider
such user-defined groups as ground-truth communities. This data is provided by Alan Mislove et al.
(http://socialnetworks.mpi-sws.org/data-imc2007.html)

We regard each connected component in a group as a separate ground-truth
community. We remove the ground-truth communities which have less than 3
nodes. We also provide the top 5,000 communities with highest quality
which are described in our paper (http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.6233). As for
the network, we provide the largest connected component.

Network statistics
Nodes 1,134,890
Edges 2,987,624
Nodes in largest WCC 1134890 (1.000)
Edges in largest WCC 2987624 (1.000)
Nodes in largest SCC 1134890 (1.000)
Edges in largest SCC 2987624 (1.000)
Average clustering coefficient 0.0808
Number of triangles 3056386
Fraction of closed triangles 0.002081
Diameter (longest shortest path) 20
90-percentile effective diameter 6.5
Community statistics
Number of communities 8,385
Average community size 13.50
Average membership size 0.10

Source (citation)
J. Yang and J. Leskovec. Defining and Evaluating Network Communities based on Ground-truth. ICDM, 2012. http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.6233

Files
File Description
com-youtube.ungraph.txt.gz Undirected Youtube network
com-youtube.all.cmty.txt.gz Youtube communities
com-youtube.top5000.cmty.txt.gz Youtube communities (Top 5,000)

Notes on inclusion into the SuiteSparse Matrix Collection, July 2018:

The graph in the SNAP data set is 1-based, with nodes numbered 1 to
1,157,827.

In the SuiteSparse Matrix Collection, Problem.A is the undirected Youtube
network, a matrix of size n-by-n with n=1,134,890, which is the number of
unique user id's appearing in any edge.

Problem.aux.nodeid is a list of the node id's that appear in the SNAP data set. A(i,j)=1 if person nodeid(i) is friends with person nodeid(j). The
node id's are the same as the SNAP data set (1-based).

C = Problem.aux.Communities_all is a sparse matrix of size n by 16,386
which represents the communities in the com-youtube.all.cmty.txt file.
The kth line in that file defines the kth community, and is the column
C(:,k), where C(i,k)=1 if person ...

Our dataset offers a unique blend of attributes from YouTube and Google Maps, empowering users with comprehensive insights into online content and geographical reach. Let's delve into what makes our data stand out:

Unique Attributes: - From YouTube: Detailed video information including title, description, upload date, video ID, and channel URL. Video metrics such as views, likes, comments, and duration are also provided. - Creator Info: Access author details like name and channel URL. - Channel Information: Gain insights into channel title, description, location, join date, and visual branding elements like logo and banner URLs. - Channel Metrics: Understand a channel's performance with metrics like total views, subscribers, and video count. - Google Maps Integration: Explore business ratings from Google My Business and location data from Google Maps.

Data Sourcing: - Our data is meticulously sourced from publicly available information on YouTube and Google Maps, ensuring accuracy and reliability.

Primary Use-Cases: - Marketing: Analyze video performance metrics to optimize content strategies. - Research: Explore trends in creator behavior and audience engagement. - Location-Based Insights: Utilize Google Maps data for market research, competitor analysis, and location-based targeting.

Fit within Broader Offering: - This dataset complements our broader data offering by providing rich insights into online content consumption and geographical presence. It enhances decision-making processes across various industries, including marketing, advertising, research, and business intelligence.

Usage Examples: - Marketers can identify popular video topics and optimize advertising campaigns accordingly. - Researchers can analyze audience engagement patterns to understand viewer preferences. - Businesses can assess their Google My Business ratings and geographical distribution for strategic planning.

With scalable solutions and high-quality data, our dataset offers unparalleled depth for extracting actionable insights and driving informed decisions in the digital landscape.

Data set constructed from YouTube comments (72,098 comments posted by 43,859 users on 623 relevant videos to the crisis)

Social media platforms use short, highly engaging videos to catch users’ attention. While the short-form video feeds popularized by TikTok are rapidly spreading to other platforms, we do not yet understand their impact on cognitive functions. We conducted a between-subjects experiment (𝑁 = 60) investigating the impact of engaging with TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube while performing a Prospective Memory task (i.e., executing a previously planned action). The study required participants to remember intentions over interruptions. We found that the TikTok condition significantly degraded the users’ performance in this task. As none of the other conditions (Twitter, YouTube, no activity) had a similar effect, our results indicate that the combination of short videos and rapid context-switching impairs intention recall and execution. We contribute a quantified understanding of the effect of social media feed format on Prospective Memory and outline consequences for media technology designers not to harm the users’ memory and wellbeing. Description of the Dataset Data frame: The ./data/rt.csv provides the data frame of reaction times. The ./data/acc.csv provides the data frame of reaction accuracy scores. The ./data/q.csv provides the data frame collected from questionnaires. The ./data/ddm.csv is the learned DDM features using ./appendix2_ddm_fitting.ipynb, which is then used in ./3.ddm_anova.ipynb. Figures: All figures appeared in the paper are placed in ./figures and can be reproduced using *_vis.ipynb files.

Motivation

The rise of online media has enabled users to choose various unethical and artificial ways of gaining social growth to boost their credibility (number of followers/retweets/views/likes/subscriptions) within a short time period. In this work, we present ABOME, a novel data repository consisting of datasets collected from multiple platforms for the analysis of blackmarket-driven collusive activities, which are prevalent but often unnoticed in online media. ABOME contains data related to tweets and users on Twitter, YouTube videos, YouTube channels. We believe ABOME is a unique data repository that one can leverage to identify and analyze blackmarket based temporal fraudulent activities in online media as well as the network dynamics.

License

Creative Commons License.

Description of the dataset

- Historical Data

We collected the metadata of each entity present in the historical data

Twitter:

We collected the following fields for retweets and followers on Twitter:

user_details: A JSON object representing a Twitter user.

tweet_details: A JSON object representing a tweet.

tweet_retweets: A JSON list of tweet objects representing the most recent 100 retweets of a given tweet.

1. https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/data-dictionary/overview/user-object↩︎

2. https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/data-dictionary/overview/tweet-object↩︎

YouTube:

We collected the following fields for YouTube likes and comments:

is_family_friendly: Whether the video is marked as family friendly or not.

genre: Genre of the video.

duration: Duration of the video in ISO 8601 format (duration type). This format is generally used when the duration denotes the amount of intervening time in a time interval.

description: Description of the video.

upload_date: Date that the video was uploaded.

is_paid: Whether the video is paid or not.

is_unlisted: The privacy status of the video, i.e., whether the video is unlisted or not. Here, the flag unlisted indicates that the video can only be accessed by people who have a direct link to it.

statistics: A JSON object containing the number of dislikes, views and likes for the video.

comments: A list of comments for the video. Each element in the list is a JSON object of the text (the comment text) and time (the time when the comment was posted).

We collected the following fields for YouTube channels:

channel_description: Description of the channel.

hidden_subscriber_count: Total number of hidden subscribers of the channel.

published_at: Time when the channel was created. The time is specified in ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.sZ).

video_count: Total number of videos uploaded to the channel.

subscriber_count: Total number of subscribers of the channel.

view_count: The number of times the channel has been viewed.

kind: The API resource type (e.g., youtube#channel for YouTube channels).

country: The country the channel is associated with.

comment_count: Total number of comments the channel has received.

etag: The ETag of the channel which is an HTTP header used for web browser cache validation.

The historical data is stored in five directories named according to the type of data inside it. Each directory contains json files corresponding to the data described above.

- Time-series Data

We collect the following time-series data for retweets and followers on Twitter:

user_timeline: This is a JSON list of tweet objects in the user’s timeline, which consists of the tweets posted, retweeted and quoted by the user. The file created at each time interval contains the new tweets posted by the user during each time interval.

user_followers: This is a JSON file containing the user ids of all the followers of a user that were added or removed from the follower list during each time interval.

user_followees: This is a JSON file consisting of the user ids of all the users followed by a user, i.e., the followees of a user, that were added or removed from the followee list during each time interval.

tweet_details: This is a JSON object representing a given tweet, collected after every time interval.

tweet_retweets: This is a JSON list of tweet objects representing the most recent 100 retweets of a given tweet, collected after every time interval.

The time-series data is stored in directories named according to the timestamp of the collection time. Each directory contains sub-directories corresponding to the data described above.

Data Anonymization

The data is anonymized by removing all Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and generating pseud-IDs corresponding to the original IDs. A consistent mapping between the original and pseudo-IDs is maintained to maintain the integrity of the data.

Data Usage (download from hugging face)

We provide separate list files for all data and SFT data. The all_data_list.json file contains the YouTube video IDs and the names of several clips obtained from the video segmentation (these names serve as unique identifiers and can be used to locate the corresponding annotations in the annotation folder). Every YouTube video ID specific to a single video on youtube.com, for example, you can access 8Hg_-5aUOYo through Link… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/dorni/SpeakerVid-5M-Dataset.

The dataset is first introduced in the following paper: Siqi Wu and Paul Resnick. Cross-Partisan Discussions on YouTube: Conservatives Talk to Liberals but Liberals Don't Talk to Conservatives. In AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), 2021. us_partisan.csv Metadata for 1,267 US partisan media on YouTube. The first row is header. Fields include "title, url, channel_title, channel_id, leaning, type, source, channel_description" video_meta.csv Metadata for 274241 YouTube political videos from US partisan media. The first row is header. Fields include "video_id, channel_id, media_leaning, media_type, num_view, num_comment, num_cmt_from_liberal, num_cmt_from_conservative, num_cmt_from_unknown" user_comment_meta.csv.bz2 Metadata for 9,304,653 YouTube users who have commented on YouTube political videos. The first row is header. Fields include "hashed_user_id, predicted_user_leaning, num_comment, num_cmt_on_left, num_cmt_on_right" user_comment_trace.tsv.bz2 Comment trace for 9,304,653 YouTube users who have commented on YouTube political videos. The first row is header. Fields include "hashed_user_id predicted_user_leaning comment_trace" (split by \t) "comment_trace" consists of "channel_id1,num_comment_on_this_channel1;channel_id2,num_comment_on_this_channel2;..." (split by ;) trained_HAN_models.tar.bz2 Five trained HAN models for predicting user political leanings. Each model consists a ".h5" model file and ".tokenizer" tokenizer file. See this for how to use our pre-trained HAN models. See more details in this data description.

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Have you ever wanted to create your own maps, or integrate and visualize spatial datasets to examine changes in trends between locations and over time? Follow along with these training tutorials on QGIS, an open source geographic information system (GIS) and learn key concepts, procedures and skills for performing common GIS tasks – such as creating maps, as well as joining, overlaying and visualizing spatial datasets. These tutorials are geared towards new GIS users. We’ll start with foundational concepts, and build towards more advanced topics throughout – demonstrating how with a few relatively easy steps you can get quite a lot out of GIS. You can then extend these skills to datasets of thematic relevance to you in addressing tasks faced in your day-to-day work.

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