301 posts analyzed Updated Sep 2026
Averages 10 posts/day, top 25% activity. Most active Tuesdays around 12 PM UTC. Mostly text posts (75%).
r/datasets Traffic & Engagement r/datasets Traffic & Engagement
Volume and engagement over time Posting volume and engagement over time
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Upvote Distribution
How upvoted posts perform Only posts with 2+ upvotes. The bands below show how those posts are spread by upvote count.
r/datasets Most Active Times When r/datasets Is Most Active
Peak posting by day and hour (UTC) When this community posts most, by day and hour (UTC)
Most Active by Day
r/datasets Flair Performance r/datasets Flair Performance
Upvotes and volume by flair Average upvotes and post volume by flair
| Flair | Posts | Upvotes |
|---|---|---|
| dataset | 107 (35.8%) | 2 |
| resource | 95 (31.8%) | 1 |
| request | 46 (15.4%) | 1 |
| question | 28 (9.4%) | 1 |
| discussion | 13 (4.3%) | 1 |
| API | 7 (2.3%) | 3 |
| mock dataset | 3 (1.0%) | 1 |
Post Type Breakdown
Share by text, image, or link Share of posts by format: text, image, or link
r/datasets Trending Keywords Trending Keywords in r/datasets
Ranked by how often they appear Title keywords ranked by how often they appear
| Keyword | Mentions ▼ | Upvotes | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| dataset | 105 (34.9%) | 2 | 1 |
| data | 81 (26.9%) | 1 | 1 |
| free | 50 (16.6%) | 2 | 1 |
| self | 47 (15.6%) | 1 | 1 |
| promotion | 45 (14.9%) | 1 | 1 |
| datasets | 31 (10.3%) | 1 | 1 |
| synthetic | 30 (10.0%) | 1 | 1 |
| looking | 28 (9.3%) | 1 | 1 |
| paid | 23 (7.6%) | 1 | 1 |
| csv | 20 (6.6%) | 1 | 1 |
r/datasets Mentioned Domains Mentioned Domains in r/datasets
Most linked sites Most linked sites in this subreddit
| Domain | Links | Upvotes |
|---|---|---|
| huggingface.co | 4 | 9 |
| kaggle.com | 4 | 3 |
| provenbrief.com | 4 | 0 |
r/datasets Top Posts Top Performing Posts in r/datasets
Highest-performing posts Highest-performing posts. Each title links to Reddit.
I scraped 5.94 billion TikTok videos and 3.23 billion profiles in 3 weeks. Uploaded full dataset to Hugging Face for free. Step by step tutorial and code below.
[OC] DrugHub scrape. 22k listings and 423k reviews from an illegal marketplace
Free JSON feed of all active US food recalls (FDA + USDA merged), CC BY 4.0
I Made the largest real Japanese People dataset with 37 attributes, 231k rows. (name, gender , age, occupations, height and more)
18,000 Mafia/Werewolf chatlogs (3,000,000 messages)
I turned two years of a village trader’s handwritten ledger into an open dataset
The biggest open football dataset & 430 000 football bookmaker' odds dataset!
[self-promotion] Full historical GDELT event archive (50+ years, hundreds of millions of rows) as clean, sampled Parquet, no API or BigQuery limits
Haitian Creole Word Frequency Dataset
Gambling Harm Open Data — 5 CSVs on US gambling harm (what every state publishes, sportsbook RG tools, 125-term glossary), CC BY 4.0, DOI, no signup
r/datasets Audience Overlap r/datasets Subreddit Overlap & Related Communities
Overlapping audiences Communities with overlapping audiences
r/datasets FAQ Frequently Asked Questions About r/datasets
What's the best time to post on r/datasets?
Based on posting volume, r/datasets is most active on Tuesdays around 12 PM UTC. That window has the most community activity, but busier hours also mean more competition for attention.
How active is r/datasets?
r/datasets averages 10 posts per day and ranks in the top 25% for activity among tracked SFW subreddits.
How many upvotes do posts on r/datasets get?
Posts on r/datasets average about 2 upvotes this month (net score per post).
What kind of posts does r/datasets get most?
On r/datasets, most posts are text posts (75%)