Australian News Headlines Over Eighteen Years

News headlines published over an eighteen-year period, sourced from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Each data instance includes a publish date and a headline text string.

Use Cases

• Analyze temporal trends in headline topics using the publish date field.
• Train a text generation model on the headline text to produce news-style headlines.
• Perform sentiment or topic analysis on the headline text to study media focus over time.

Strengths

• Headlines sourced from a reputable national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
• Covers an eighteen-year publication period, enabling long-term trend analysis.
• Dataset is monolingual English, simplifying text processing tasks.

Limitations

• The exact number of rows (headlines) is unknown, making it difficult to assess scale.
• Data fields are limited to publish date and headline text, lacking additional context like article body or category.
• The last known update was in July 2022, so data may not include recent headlines.

Provenance

Source

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)

Collection Method

Sourced from news publications.

Time Range

Eighteen-year period (specific years not stated).

Freshness

Last updated 2022-07-01.

Geography

Australia