The New York Times Tech Pulse Dataset

Columns

• Headline: The main title of the news article (e.g., "At Meta, Millions of Underage Users Were an ‘Open Secret,’ States Say").
• Description: A detailed snippet or summary explaining the context of the headline (e.g., "Meta “routinely documented” children under 13 on Instagram...").

Distribution

• Format: CSV (Comma Separated Values)
• Size: Approximately 111.29 kB
• Structure: 2 columns ('Headline' and 'Description')
• Record Count: 550 valid rows (with 0% missing or mismatched data)

Usage

• Sentiment Analysis: Evaluate the tone of technology reporting regarding specific companies or topics like AI.
• Text Summarisation: Train models to generate headlines based on article descriptions.
• Trend Tracking: Monitor the frequency of keywords such as "AI", "Meta", or "security" over the sampled month.
• Linguistic Analysis: Study the vocabulary and phrasing used in top-tier tech journalism.

Coverage

• Geographic Scope: Global technology news as reported by a US-based publication (includes international topics).
• Time Range: 25 October to 27 November.
• Content Focus: Technology sector, including social media regulation, AI ethics, and general tech industry updates.
• Language: Predominantly English, with occasional foreign language headlines (e.g., Spanish titles regarding AI weaponry).

License

Who Can Use It

• Data Scientists: For training NLP models on news text.
• Journalists & Researchers: For analysing media coverage patterns in the tech industry.
• Students: For beginner-level data cleaning, visualisation, and text mining projects.

Dataset Name Suggestions

• NYT Tech Chronicle: Oct-Nov Archive
• Tech Headlines 550+ (Autumn Edition)
• The New York Times Tech Pulse Dataset
• Daily Tech News Summaries & Headlines

Attributes