Yahoo songs ratings
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Yahoo labs
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Dataset Description:
A collection of datasets curated by Yahoo for research purposes, including ratings, social data, and multimedia content, mainly used for recommender systems and machine learning research. The datasets encompass a vast number of user ratings, reflecting a wide array of musical tastes and preferences. Each song is accompanied by detailed metadata, including artist, album, and genre information, facilitating multifaceted analyses. Users are represented by randomly assigned numeric IDs, ensuring privacy while allowing for user behavior studies. This dataset includes approximately 300,000 user-supplied ratings and exactly 54,000 ratings for randomly selected songs. It involves 15,400 users and 1,000 songs, with a total size of 1.2 MB. The data was collected between 2002 and 2006, capturing user interactions and preferences during this period. The main components of the dataset are structured as follows:
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R2 Dataset: Contains user ratings for songs, with each entry linked to metadata such as artist, album, and genre. All identifiers (users, songs, artists, albums) are anonymized.
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R3 Dataset: Comprises two subsets: one with ratings from normal user interactions and another with ratings for randomly selected songs collected via an online survey. It also includes responses to seven multiple-choice survey questions regarding rating behavior for a subset of
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