r/datasets is a subreddit with 220k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses dataset, looking for, looking, looking for a, and ai, and they frequently recommend/review database.
A place to share, find, and discuss Datasets.
Popular Themes in r/datasets
#1
Advice Requests
: "What publicly available recurring data source do you repeatedly search for that still doesn’t exist in clean structured format?"
19 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Free API: 62,173 Japanese ramen shops — English/romaji names, geo, nearest station (no signup)"
12 posts
#3
Self-Promotion
: "[Slef-promotion][Synthetic] I built a 100K-row sleep health dataset from scratch - it just earned a Kaggle Silver Medal (7,800 views, 1,700+ downloads in 2 weeks)"
3 posts
#4
Pain & Anger
: "tested some proxy providers for city-level geotrgeting and most of them lied to me"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/datasets
#1
Dataset
: "I scraped over 2 million job postings across 100,000+ company career sites into a unified, daily-updated Dataset."
94 posts
#2
Looking For
: "Looking For a character network dataset for Dracula by Bram Stoker"
28 posts
#3
Looking
25 posts
#4
Looking For A
19 posts
#5
Ai
: "jobdatapool is a forever free dataset validated by humans and curated by humans for Ai"
14 posts
#6
Self Promotion
: "[Self-Promotion] Active DeepTech Investors Mapped from Recent Funding Activity"
12 posts
#7
Data
: "What are the best Data platforms for startup market research (especially beauty/cosmetics) that are actually worth paying for?"
9 posts
#8
Open Source
: "Built an alternative to OpenCorporates using strictly first-party government data. Looking for feedback."
9 posts
#9
Api
: "What is the best travel search Api (flights, hotels, etc) today?"
8 posts
#10
Research
6 posts
Products Discussed in r/datasets
Database
1 review
#1
Stanford
5.0★ from 1 review
Flair Used in r/datasets
#1
dataset
: "I scraped over 2 million job postings across 100,000+ company career sites into a unified, daily-updated dataset."
64 posts
#2
resource
: "I got tired of checking Kaggle, HuggingFace, data.gov, and other sites every time I needed a dataset, so I built a tool that searches all of them at once"
58 posts
#3
request
: "[Slef-promotion][Synthetic] I built a 100K-row sleep health dataset from scratch - it just earned a Kaggle Silver Medal (7,800 views, 1,700+ downloads in 2 weeks)"
37 posts
#4
question
: "What is a dataset that you can’t believe is available to the public?"
28 posts
#5
discussion
: "tested some proxy providers for city-level geotrgeting and most of them lied to me"
8 posts
#6
API
: "Every US ETF's full holdings and operational census is public, machine-readable SEC data (N-PORT + N-CEN) and underused"
4 posts
#7
survey
: "I built a free tool that lets you click anywhere on a map and get weather, terrain, vegetation, and hazard data. Looking for honest feedback from GIS professionals"
1 post
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Last updated: July 15, 2026