Webz.io Political News Dataset Repository

https://github.com/Webhose/political-news-dataset

Introduction

Welcome to the Webz.io Political News Dataset Repository! This repository is created by Webz.io and is dedicated to providing free datasets of publicly available news articles categorized as political news. We release new datasets weekly, each containing around 1,000 news articles focused on various political topics.

The data is created by running the following query against Webz.io open web repository: category:Politics language:english with a random sentiment filter of positive or negative.

To get ongoing free access to online news data, you can use Webz.io's free News API Lite.

Dataset Overview

Weekly Releases: New dataset available every week.
Thematic Focus: Datasets based on political themes.
Rich Metadata: Includes sentiment analysis, categories, publication dates.
Diverse Sources: Articles from a wide range of news websites.

Usage

The datasets are free for academic, research, and journalistic purposes:

Data Analysis: For statistical analyses, trend identification, and pattern recognition.
Machine Learning: Suitable for training NLP models, sentiment analysis, etc.
Journalistic Research: Helps journalists in data-driven storytelling.

Accessing the Datasets

Browse the repository.
Find a dataset that suits your needs.
Download the dataset with its detailed description and metadata file.

Support

For questions or support, raise an issue in the repository.

License/Terms of Use

By using the Dataset Repository you agree to the following TOU.