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OnlineNewsPopularity

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Dataset:6036117



OpenML42724MaRDI QIDQ6036117

OpenML dataset with id 42724

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Full work available at URL: https://api.openml.org/data/v1/download/22044756/OnlineNewsPopularity.arff

Upload date: 17 November 2020



Dataset Characteristics

Number of classes: 0
Number of features: 60 (numeric: 60, symbolic: 0 and in total binary: 0 )
Number of instances: 39,644
Number of instances with missing values: 0
Number of missing values: 0

Version with url set as row id, creator data missing due to bad formatting.Author: Kelwin Fernandes (INESC TEC, Universidade doPorto), Pedro Vinagre (ALGORITMI Research Centre, Universidade do Minho), Paulo Cortez - ALGORITMI Research Centre (Universidade do Minho), Pedro Sernadela (Universidade de Aveiro)

Source: UCI

Please cite: K. Fernandes, P. Vinagre and P. Cortez. A Proactive Intelligent Decision Support System for Predicting the Popularity of Online News. Proceedings of the 17th EPIA 2015 - Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, September, Coimbra, Portugal.


This dataset summarizes a heterogeneous set of features about articles published by Mashable in a period of two years. The goal is to predict the number of shares in social networks (popularity).


  • The articles were published by Mashable (www.mashable.com) and their content as the rights to reproduce it belongs to them. Hence, this dataset does not share the original content but some statistics associated with it. The original content be publicly accessed and retrieved using the provided urls.
  • Acquisition date: January 8, 2015
  • The estimated relative performance values were estimated by the authors using a Random Forest classifier and a rolling windows as assessment method. See their article for more details on how the relative performance values were set.



Attribute Information:


Number of Attributes: 61 (58 predictive attributes, 2 non-predictive, 1 goal field)


Attribute Information:

0. url: URL of the article (non-predictive)

1. timedelta: Days between the article publication and the dataset acquisition (non-predictive)

2. n_tokens_title: Number of words in the title

3. n_tokens_content: Number of words in the content

4. n_unique_tokens: Rate of unique words in the content

5. n_non_stop_words: Rate of non-stop words in the content

6. n_non_stop_unique_tokens: Rate of unique non-stop words in the content

7. num_hrefs: Number of links

8. num_self_hrefs: Number of links to other articles published by Mashable

9. num_imgs: Number of images

10. num_videos: Number of videos

11. average_token_length: Average length of the words in the content

12. num_keywords: Number of keywords in the metadata

13. data_channel_is_lifestyle: Is data channel 'Lifestyle'?

14. data_channel_is_entertainment: Is data channel 'Entertainment'?

15. data_channel_is_bus: Is data channel 'Business'?

16. data_channel_is_socmed: Is data channel 'Social Media'?

17. data_channel_is_tech: Is data channel 'Tech'?

18. data_channel_is_world: Is data channel 'World'?

19. kw_min_min: Worst keyword (min. shares)

20. kw_max_min: Worst keyword (max. shares)

21. kw_avg_min: Worst keyword (avg. shares)

22. kw_min_max: Best keyword (min. shares)

23. kw_max_max: Best keyword (max. shares)

24. kw_avg_max: Best keyword (avg. shares)

25. kw_min_avg: Avg. keyword (min. shares)

26. kw_max_avg: Avg. keyword (max. shares)

27. kw_avg_avg: Avg. keyword (avg. shares)

28. self_reference_min_shares: Min. shares of referenced articles in Mashable

29. self_reference_max_shares: Max. shares of referenced articles in Mashable

30. self_reference_avg_sharess: Avg. shares of referenced articles in Mashable

31. weekday_is_monday: Was the article published on a Monday?

32. weekday_is_tuesday: Was the article published on a Tuesday?

33. weekday_is_wednesday: Was the article published on a Wednesday?

34. weekday_is_thursday: Was the article published on a Thursday?

35. weekday_is_friday: Was the article published on a Friday?

36. weekday_is_saturday: Was the article published on a Saturday?

37. weekday_is_sunday: Was the article published on a Sunday?

38. is_weekend: Was the article published on the weekend?

39. LDA_00: Closeness to LDA topic 0

40. LDA_01: Closeness to LDA topic 1

41. LDA_02: Closeness to LDA topic 2

42. LDA_03: Closeness to LDA topic 3

43. LDA_04: Closeness to LDA topic 4

44. global_subjectivity: Text subjectivity

45. global_sentiment_polarity: Text sentiment polarity

46. global_rate_positive_words: Rate of positive words in the content

47. global_rate_negative_words: Rate of negative words in the content

48. rate_positive_words: Rate of positive words among non-neutral tokens

49. rate_negative_words: Rate of negative words among non-neutral tokens

50. avg_positive_polarity: Avg. polarity of positive words

51. min_positive_polarity: Min. polarity of positive words

52. max_positive_polarity: Max. polarity of positive words

53. avg_negative_polarity: Avg. polarity of negative words

54. min_negative_polarity: Min. polarity of negative words

55. max_negative_polarity: Max. polarity of negative words

56. title_subjectivity: Title subjectivity

57. title_sentiment_polarity: Title polarity

58. abs_title_subjectivity: Absolute subjectivity level

59. abs_title_sentiment_polarity: Absolute polarity level

60. shares: Number of shares (target)



Relevant Papers:


K. Fernandes, P. Vinagre and P. Cortez. A Proactive Intelligent Decision Support System for Predicting the Popularity of Online News. Proceedings of the 17th EPIA 2015 - Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, September, Coimbra, Portugal.




Citation Request:


K. Fernandes, P. Vinagre and P. Cortez. A Proactive Intelligent Decision Support System for Predicting the Popularity of Online News. Proceedings of the 17th EPIA 2015 - Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, September, Coimbra, Portugal.




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