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Space Exploration Live Stream Comments
Space & Astronomy
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About
This dataset contains YouTube live comments pertaining to the Perseverance rover's landing on Mars. It is designed to help users understand global reactions to the historic event and the content of the live stream. The dataset includes timestamps indicating when comments were posted within the video, allowing for time-based feature extraction, alongside the text of the comments themselves. Non-English comments have been removed to maintain data consistency. This dataset offers insights into public sentiment during significant live scientific broadcasts, especially when technical issues like video lag or site crashes occurred.
Columns
- index: An identifier for each record in the dataset.
- time / time in video: Represents the specific timestamp within the live video stream when a comment was posted. The live stream commenced at 02:15 EST.
- comment: The text content of the user-submitted comment. It is important to note that all non-English comments have been filtered out.
Distribution
The dataset is typically provided as a CSV file. It contains approximately 16,129 records (rows). The data covers comments posted across multiple time intervals within the YouTube live stream, with individual intervals often containing around 806 to 807 comments.
Usage
This dataset is ideal for:
- Analysing public sentiment and reactions to major scientific or space exploration events, such as the Mars rover landing.
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, including sentiment analysis, topic modelling, and text classification on social media comments.
- Social media data mining to understand user engagement and discussion patterns during live broadcasts.
- Studying the impact of live video events, especially concerning viewer reactions to technical issues like buffering or site outages.
- Extracting time-series features from comments to correlate reactions with specific moments in the video.
Coverage
The dataset offers a global geographic scope, reflecting reactions from people around the world. The time range of the comments spans from 23rd February 2021 to 24th February 2021, corresponding to the period of the Perseverance Mars landing live stream. Demographically, the dataset focuses exclusively on English-language comments, as non-English submissions were removed.
License
CC0
Who Can Use It
- Data Scientists and Researchers: To perform sentiment analysis, NLP, and social media trend analysis.
- Academics: For studies on public perception of space exploration, live event engagement, or digital communication.
- Marketing and PR Professionals: To gauge public reaction to major events and understand audience sentiment.
- Developers: For building applications that analyse or visualise live stream interactions.
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Attributes
Original Data Source: Perseverance Land on Mars YouTube Live Comments
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