Problems with the database on years 2020 and 2021
Hi,
Sorry to bother you, we're using your database for a university project to build a recommendation system, however as we're analysing the data, the distribution by date published are kind of wonky on those years, i'd say from mid 2019 to 2021:
2017: 709053
2018: 824792
2019: 214784
2020: 6337
2021: 8460
2022: 1141167
2023: 1657481
2024: 1812889
2025: 280583
As we're exploring, there's 4,030,558 fanfics that have no published date, and as i tried to figure out if it's just an invalid date or no data, turns out its 4M lines with no information.
I explored the data on python btw
Is there anything we can do to get that data?
I'm not sure why some of them are missing their dates. It could be that the original scrape done by
@nyuuzyou
was incomplete, or it could've been that the script I wrote to process that dataset and remove the copyrighted works so the dataset wouldn't be taken down by DMCA claims. The full archive on HuggingFace was taken down due to those copyright claims but you can find a copy of the original here - https://datafish.ru/nyuuzyou/datasets/ao3
Hopefully that'll be more complete. Good luck with your project and if there's anything else I can help you with please let me know :)