Reddit is a social network which divide topics into so called 'subreddits'. In subreddit 'worldnews', news of the whole world are published. The dataset contains following columns: time_created - a Unix timestamp of the submission creation date date_created - creation time in %Y-%m-%d up_votes - how often the submission was upvoted down_votes - how often the submission was downvoted title - the title of the submission over_18 - if the submission is for mature persons author - the reddit username of the author subreddit - this is always 'worldnews' With the dataset, you can estimate several things in contrast to world politics and special events.