{"url":"/dataset/dataset-for-it-is-just-a-flu-assessing-the","name":"Dataset for: \"It is just a flu: Assessing the Effect of Watch History on YouTube's Pseudoscientific Video Recommendations\"","full_name":null,"description_markdown":"The dataset consists of three files: the metadata, comments, and captions of the ground-truth dataset videos collected and manually reviewed in this paper.\r\n\r\n1. Video Metadata:\r\n- \"groundtruth_videos.json\": Contains the metadata of our manually reviewed ground-truth dataset videos. The ground-truth dataset includes 1,197 science, 1,325 pseudoscience, and 3,212 irrelevant videos. More specifically, it includes the metadata of videos related to the following pseudoscientific topics:\r\n  - COVID-19: (607 science, 368 pseudoscience, 721 irrelevant videos)\r\n  - Anti-vaccination (363 science, 394 pseudoscience, and 1,060 irrelevant videos)\r\n  - Anti-mask (65 science, 188 pseudoscience, and 724 irrelevant videos)\r\n  - Flat Earth (162 science, 375 pseudoscience, and 707 irrelevant videos)\r\n\r\nNote, that 600 of the videos in this dataset include the \"annotation.manual_review_label\" attribute, which is the label assigned by the first author of this paper to evaluate the performance of the crowdsourced annotation process.\r\n\r\n- Video Metadata Description:\r\n  - \"search_term\": The search terms used to search YouTube and retrieve these videos during our data collection. It can be one of the following search terms: 'covid-19', 'coronavirus', 'anti-vaccination', 'anti-vaxx', 'anti-mask', or 'flat earth'.\r\n  - \"annotation.annotations\": The list of the three annotations assigned to each video by our crowdsourced annotators.\r\n  - \"annotation.label\": The annotation label assigned to the video based on the majority agreement of the crowdsourced annotators.\r\n  - \"annotation.manual_review_label\": The label assigned by the first author of this paper to evaluate the performance of the crowdsourced annotation process.\r\n  - \"isSeed\": 0 if the video is a seed video of our data collection, 1 if it is a recommended video of a seed video.\r\n  - \"relatedVideos\": The recommended videos of the given video as returned by the YouTube Data API.\r\n\r\n2. Video Comments: \r\n- \"groundtruth_videos_comments_ids.json\": Includes the identifiers of the comments of our ground-truth videos.\r\n\r\n3. Video Transcripts:\r\n- \"groundtruth_videos_transcripts.json\": Includes the captions of our ground-truth videos.\r\nIf you use this dataset in any publication, of any form and kind, please cite using this data.","description_withheld":null,"homepage":"https://zenodo.org/record/4769731","introduced_date":"2020-10-22","introduced_date_note":null,"introduced_by":{"paper":"/paper/it-is-just-a-flu-assessing-the-effect-of","title":"\"It is just a flu\": Assessing the Effect of Watch History on YouTube's Pseudoscientific Video Recommendations","first_author":null,"url":null},"license":null,"modalities":[],"tasks":[],"languages":[],"variants":["Dataset for: \"It is just a flu: Assessing the Effect of Watch History on YouTube's Pseudoscientific Video Recommendations\""],"data_loaders":[],"num_papers_in_archive":1,"source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28"},"benchmarks":[],"papers_with_a_benchmark_row":[],"syntology_totals":{"read_at":"2026-09-24T18:15:14+00:00","papers_with_samples":0,"samples_harvested":0,"samples_ran":0,"samples_unverified":0,"pointer_only_for_licence":0,"papers_with_no_sample_that_ran":0,"note":"the per-paper counts above, summed; not a rate"},"papers_note":"The archive never published its papers-using-dataset list; these are papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks."}