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Datasets

A place to share, find, and discuss Datasets.

224k subscribers302 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. ~2% by known bots)255 authors / mosince 2009

r/datasets has 224k members (+7.3% over the last 12 months). It gets about 302 posts a month from 255 people. Top topics: Backtesting Strategies, NBA Draft & Stats and GitHub Repositories and Pull Requests.

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Size and growth

How r/datasets has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+7.3%in 12 months · +1.2% in 3 months · +0.3% in 1 month
Oct 2026224k
Growing224k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+50%vs Sep 2025 · −3.9% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026302
BusierPeaked at 355 in Apr 2026
Sep 2026: incl. ~2% by known botsData through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/datasets

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Backtesting Strategies1.3%
  2. NBA Draft & Stats0.3%
  3. GitHub Repositories and Pull Requests0.2%
  4. Stock Market Analysis0.2%
  5. Bitcoin Price Analysis0.2%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Hugging Face
  2. Kaggle
  3. API Hub
  4. Doi
  5. Zenodo

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