---
pretty_name: ScandiReddit
language:
- da
- sv
- no
- is
license:
- cc-by-4.0
multilinguality:
- multilingual
size_categories:
- 10M<n<100M
task_categories:
- text-generation
- fill-mask
task_ids:
- language-modeling
---

# Dataset Card for ScandiReddit

## Dataset Description

- **Repository:** <https://github.com/alexandrainst/ScandiReddit>
- **Point of Contact:** [Dan Saattrup Nielsen](mailto:dan.nielsen@alexandra.dk)
- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 2341 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 3594 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 5935 MB

### Dataset Summary

ScandiReddit is...


### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

Training language models is the intended task for this dataset. No leaderboard is active at this point.


### Languages

The dataset is available in Danish (`da`), Swedish (`sv`), Norwegian (`no`) and Icelandic (`is`).


## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 2341 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 3594 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 5935 MB

An example from the dataset looks as follows.
```
{
    'doc': 'Bergen er ødelagt. Det er ikke moro mer.',
    'subreddit': 'Norway',
    'language': 'da',
    'language_confidence': 0.7472341656684875}
}
```

### Data Fields

The data fields are the same among all splits.

- `doc`: a `string` feature.
- `subreddit`: a `string` feature.
- `language`: a `string` feature.
- `language_confidence`: a `float64` feature.

### Language Distribution

|   name   |  count  |
|----------|--------:|
| sv       | 6967420 |
| sv       | 4965195 |
| no       | 1340470 |
| is       | 206689  |

### Top-20 Subreddit Distribution

|   name   |  count  |
|----------|--------:|
|sweden                |4881483|
|Denmark               |3579178|
|norge                 |1281655|
|svenskpolitik         | 771960|
|InfluencergossipDK    | 649910|
|swedishproblems       | 339683|
|Iceland               | 183488|
|dkfinance             | 113860|
|unket                 |  81077|
|DanishEnts            |  69055|
|dankmark              |  62928|
|swedents              |  58576|
|scandinavia           |  57136|
|Allsvenskan           |  56006|
|Gothenburg            |  54395|
|stockholm             |  51016|
|ISKbets               |  47944|
|Sverige               |  39552|
|SWARJE                |  34691|
|GossipDK              |  29332|


## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

The Scandinavian languages do not have many open source social media datasets.

### Source Data

The raw Reddit data was collected through [PushShift](https://files.pushshift.io/reddit/comments/).


## Additional Information

### Dataset Curators

[Dan Saattrup Nielsen](https://saattrupdan.github.io/) from the [The Alexandra
Institute](https://alexandra.dk/) curated this dataset.

### Licensing Information

The dataset is licensed under the [CC BY 4.0
license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).