Italian Crime News Articles from Modena Province 2011-2021

A collection of news articles published online by the Gazzetta di Modena newspaper, each assigned a crime category. The articles are written in Italian and describe 11 types of crime events that occurred in the province of Modena between the end of 2011 and 2021.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in crime category assignments over the 2011-2021 time period.
• Train a text classification model to categorize Italian news articles based on their title and text content.
• Study the linguistic patterns and vocabulary used in Italian crime reporting via the article text and sub-title fields.
• Map the frequency of different crime types reported in the province of Modena using the crime category labels.

Strengths

• Covers a defined time range of approximately a decade, from late 2011 to 2021.
• Includes articles categorized into 11 distinct types of crime events.
• Articles contain structured components such as title, sub-title, text, and publication date.

Limitations

• Geographic scope is limited to the province of Modena, Italy, which may not be representative of other regions.
• The dataset's size, row count, and specific column structure are unknown, limiting assessment of its scale and completeness.

Provenance

Source

News articles published online by the Gazzetta di Modena newspaper.

Collection Method

Collected from the newspaper's online publication, with crime categories assigned by the author.

Time Range

From the end of 2011 to 2021.

Freshness

The dataset was last updated on June 8, 2022.

Geography

Province of Modena, Italy.