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 us, and they frequently recommend/review database.
A place to share, find, and discuss Datasets.
Popular Themes in r/datasets
#1
Advice Requests
: "500TB of Open Source financial data for free"
16 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Free API: 62,173 Japanese ramen shops — English/romaji names, geo, nearest station (no signup)"
11 posts
#3
Self-Promotion
: "I engineered 102 leakage-free ML features from 49,000+ international football matches (1872–2026) and published it as a free dataset"
6 posts
#4
Ideas
: "We mapped ~500k rooftop PV installations across France with deep learning — model, weights, and dataset now fully open"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/datasets
#1
Dataset
: "Looking for a Dataset tracking multiple students' daily habits/behavior AND academic performance over time"
45 posts
#2
Looking For
23 posts
#3
Looking
20 posts
#4
Looking For A
19 posts
#5
Us
3 posts
#6
Ai
2 posts
#7
Datasets
2 posts
#8
Social Media
2 posts
#9
Pokemon
2 posts
#10
Big Dataset
2 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."
68 posts
#2
resource
: "500TB of Open Source financial data for free"
54 posts
#3
request
: "Bollywood IMDB Data Required after 2024"
37 posts
#4
question
: "Before labeling 10,000 images, label the same 100 twice"
25 posts
#5
discussion
: "Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination"
10 posts
#6
API
: "[Self-Promo] AI-agent-ready financial data + near-real-time insider trading data"
5 posts
#7
mock dataset
: "[Self-promotion] [Synthetic] Ontario municipal FIR explorer: 436/444 municipalities with 2023–2025 filings — provenance feedback wanted"
1 post
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Last updated: September 2, 2026