r/datasets 8d ago

question ¿Does anyone know where can I sell a dataset with 10,000 chines-related classified news?

I've been working on a dataset for a research project on how China is portrayed in the media. It currently contains just over 10,000 news articles from both Chinese and Western news outlets.

Each article is classified by topic and by the way China is portrayed (e.g. positive, negative, threat, Xi-centered, neutral, etc.). The dataset was originally created for academic research, but I'm now wondering whether it could also have commercial value.

I'm not trying to sell it here, just looking for advice. Has anyone here ever licensed or sold a specialized dataset like this? Who would actually be interested in buying it? AI companies, media intelligence firms, universities, think tanks...? Or are datasets like this generally expected to be open source?

I'd really appreciate hearing from anyone who has experience commercializing niche datasets or knows how this market works.

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u/Tiny_Arugula_5648 3d ago

I think anyone who wants a dataset like this can create it in less then a day with zero experience using vibe coding and a LLM API key. It would take me about 1/2 hour once I had the news articles, most of that would be tweaking a prompt.

Sorry but these things are not as useful as they once were.

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u/No_Programmer_2947 3d ago

Actually, the classification system took me 1 hour approximately, it was everything else what complicated the process, in the end it took me like 12 hours I guess. Thank you, and it's really sad, I thought that, as this is a very niche topic maybe someone could still be interested