ECHOExploratory Compendium of Humanity Online

Blog Authorship Corpus — Banking Bloggers

AnalyzedSmalltextBloggerAcademicBloggingGenderIdentity

A Blogger.com (2004) dataset of 46 bloggers, 46 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.

#Authorship attribution#Banking#Blog authorship corpus#Demographics

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

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Content metrics

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

gender63.0% true
true 63.0%false 37.0%
ageμ 26.891 ± 4.851
min 13max 38
6.9
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
7.4
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
2004timelikepeoplethinkknowworkdonurllinkdaygoingjunegotquegoodtodayaugustwaylifenewhomerightwantneedwentlittleyearsthingsthingnightlovedidnbankmoneythoughtweekfeelmaybeyearlooklotcomemansaidlonghavingletworldtimespretty
Top hashtags
#21
#41

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
blog-authorship-banking
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
46
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, 4.0 MB across 112 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 — Banking Bloggers [Data set]. https://blog-authorship-banking.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 — Banking Bloggers. 2006, blog-authorship-banking.echo.directory/.

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