YouNiverse：来自英语国家YouTube的大规模频道和视频元数据
YouNiverse: Large-Scale Channel and Video Metadata from English-Speaking YouTube
摘要：
YouTube在娱乐和告知全球各地的人们方面发挥着关键作用。然而，研究该平台是困难的，由于缺乏随机抽样数据和系统的方法来查询平台的庞大目录。在本文中，我们介绍了YouNiverse，一个来自英语YouTube的频道和视频元数据的大型集合。YouNiverse包含2005年5月至2019年10月期间发布的超过13.6万个频道和7290万个视频的元数据，以及每周订阅和观看次数的频道级时间序列数据。利用socialblade.com（一个提供有关YouTube信息的在线服务）的频道排名，我们能够评估和提高频道样本的代表性。此外，该数据集还包含一个表格，指定了一组4.49亿匿名用户评论了哪些视频。YouNiverse可在https：//doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4650046上公开获取，将使社区能够对YouTube进行研究。
英文摘要：
YouTube plays a key role in entertaining and informing people around the globe. However, studying the platform is difficult due to the lack of randomly sampled data and of systematic ways to query the platform's colossal catalog. In this paper, we present YouNiverse, a large collection of channel and video metadata from English-language YouTube. YouNiverse comprises metadata from over 136k channels and 72.9M videos published between May 2005 and October 2019, as well as channel-level time-series data with weekly subscriber and view counts. Leveraging channel ranks from socialblade.com, an online service that provides information about YouTube, we are able to assess and enhance the representativeness of the sample of channels. Additionally, the dataset also contains a table specifying which videos a set of 449M anonymous users commented on. YouNiverse, publicly available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4650046, will empower the community to do research with and about YouTube.
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