r/datasets is a subreddit with 220k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice 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
Solution Requests
: "Driver Drowsiness Datasets for South Asians?"
9 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "Looking for realistic datasets for analytics + ML projects after running into synthetic data issues"
8 posts
#3
Self-Promotion
: "Federal Contractor Violations Dataset [dataset][self-promotion]"
2 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
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
: "Free browser tool to explore PSID-SHELF: 50 years of longitudinal family Data, no Stata require"
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."
44 posts
#2
resource
: "Finance Database: 300,000+ financial instruments with rich metadata, free and queryable via Python"
41 posts
#3
question
: "I can scrape/aggregate pretty much any fragmented public data. What datasets are missing"
22 posts
#4
request
: "Looking for realistic datasets for analytics + ML projects after running into synthetic data issues"
19 posts
#5
discussion
: "tested some proxy providers for city-level geotrgeting and most of them lied to me"
6 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
code
: "I built a decision intelligence system that actually traces every number to real data"
3 posts
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Last updated: July 1, 2026