r/datasets is a subreddit with 222k 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 data, and they frequently recommend/review database.
A place to share, find, and discuss Datasets.
Popular Themes in r/datasets
#1
Advice Requests
: "Looking for free archives of old Marathi newspaper ePapers (Sakal, Lokmat, Pudhari) for an OCR/text analysis dataset"
2 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "How to extract/load river discharge, tide, and wind data for turbidity analysis (Python API issue)?"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/datasets
#1
Dataset
48 posts
#2
Looking For
26 posts
#3
Looking
23 posts
#4
Looking For A
19 posts
#5
Data
5 posts
#6
Tools
4 posts
#7
Us
3 posts
#8
Web
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Ai
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#10
Datasets
2 posts
Products Discussed in r/datasets
Database
1 review
#1
Stanford
5.0★ from 1 review
Flair Used in r/datasets
#1
question
: "I am working on Travel need some advice?"
14 posts
#2
dataset
: "15 million websites with historical data - what do you want to know?"
13 posts
#3
request
: "Variety of datasets for 30 use cases"
12 posts
#4
resource
: "[Dataset] 6M job postings with skills, salary, seniority, location facets — from an open-source job aggregator"
10 posts
#5
discussion
: "Building high-quality datasets from small, messy raw data with pipelines and operators"
5 posts
#6
mock dataset
: "[Self-promotion] [Synthetic] Ontario municipal FIR explorer: 436/444 municipalities with 2023–2025 filings — provenance feedback wanted"
1 post
#7
API
: "A clean Python parser to extract geographic revenue from live SEC 10-K filings"
1 post
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Last updated: August 11, 2026