ECHOExploratory Compendium of Humanity Online

Blog Authorship Corpus — Arts & Entertainment Bloggers

AnalyzedSmalltextBloggerAcademicBloggingEntertainmentGenderIdentity

A Blogger.com (2004) dataset of 282 bloggers, 320 posts, collected by Schler et al. for AAAI 2006. Each record contains blog post text, gender, age, industry, astrological sign. Historical blog corpus from 2004 with rich metadata per blogger (gender, age, industry, astrological sign). Balanced across age groups and genders.. Suitable for authorship attribution, stylistic analysis, demographic language variation, historical NLP.

#Age#Authorship attribution#Blog authorship corpus#Demographics

Cite this dataset at blog-authorship-arts.echo.directory

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Content metrics

282 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

gender41.1% true
true 41.1%false 58.9%
ageμ 24.812 ± 8.755
min 13max 48
6.4
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
7.0
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
like2004knowtimedonpeoplethinkgoodgotaugustgoinglovedayurllinkwantlifethingswayrightbestwentfeelthingtodaynewworkmansaidlittlejulynightjunedidnneedfriendshomelookworldyearslongthoughtcomefindmaybeawayyearbetterprettyletgreat
Topic clusters

Topic 0

benny
like
resentment
application
accept
limit
think
know

Topic 1

know
like
day
thing
feel
time
love
think

Topic 2

life
know
activity
like
feel
think
friend
thing

Topic 3

day
know
love
work
like
thing
time
think

Topic 4

like
time
think
look
know
day
want
feel

Topic 5

urllink
people
bush
know
like
want
think
country

Topic 6

urllink
year
work
time
think
post
like
site

Topic 7

piano
play
octave
grand
den
blog
sigh
time

Topic 8

ricky
today
know
think
want
like
yeah
day

Topic 9

brandon
like
fun
think
watch
school
time
good
Top hashtags
#128
#221
#0000006
#6666666
#__6
#55
#75
#34
#44
#_____4
#___3
#____3
#_____________________3
#62
#802
#________2
#_________2
#__________2
#___________2
#_____________2

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
blog-authorship-arts
Authors
Schler, Jonathan; Koppel, Moshe; Argamon, S.; Pennebaker, J.
Year
2006
Source paper
Effects of Age and Gender on Blogging
License
Free for non-commercial research (LicenseRef-Research-Only)
Records
282
Languages
en
Collected
2004 (2000s)
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://huggingface.co/datasets/barilan/blog_authorship_corpus link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 39.1 MB across 721 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@inproceedings{schler2006,
  title     = {Effects of Age and Gender on Blogging},
  author    = {Schler, Jonathan and Koppel, Moshe and Argamon, S. and Pennebaker, J.},
  year      = {2006},
  booktitle = {AAAI Spring Symposium: Computational Approaches to Analyzing Weblogs}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Schler, J., Koppel, M., Argamon, S., & Pennebaker, J. (2006). Blog Authorship Corpus — Arts & Entertainment Bloggers [Data set]. https://blog-authorship-arts.echo.directory/

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Schler, Jonathan, et al. Blog Authorship Corpus — Arts & Entertainment Bloggers. 2006, blog-authorship-arts.echo.directory/.

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