Human Essays Reddit: Top-Voted Writing Prompts and Responses from 2014-2022

jonathanli's Human Essays Reddit dataset contains essay prompts and top-voted responses scraped from the r/WritingPrompts subreddit. The data covers prompts from May 9, 2014 to August 16, 2022 and is filtered to include only the top 25% voted prompts that also have a top 25% voted comment response. The dataset was last updated on HuggingFace on February 19, 2024.

Use Cases

• Train creative writing assistants based on curated human prompts and responses.
• Analyze narrative structures and themes from popular writing prompts.
• Benchmark AI-generated stories against top-voted human-written examples.
• Study the evolution of popular writing trends on Reddit over an 8-year period.

Strengths

• Data spans over 8 years, from May 2014 to August 2022.
• Applies a dual quality filter: prompts and comments must each be in the top 25% of votes.
• Explicitly curated to contain human-written samples.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect the popularity bias inherent to Reddit's voting system.

Provenance

Source

r/WritingPrompts subreddit on Reddit.

Collection Method

Scraped and filtered based on vote percentiles.

Time Range

May 9, 2014 — August 16, 2022

Freshness

Last updated 2024-02-19 17:33:04