Blog Authorship Corpus — Male Bloggers (33–47)

A Blogger.com (2004) dataset of 541 bloggers, 678 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 prediction#Authorship attribution#Blog authorship corpus#Demographics

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

ageμ 37.708 ± 3.957
min 33max 47
7.7
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
8.2
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
2004likeurllinktimepeopledongoodknowthinkdaygoingnewwayworkaugustjunelifethingsgotyearswantrightlittlesaidtodayjulyneedthinggreatworldbestyearlovedidnlonghomecomefindletnightbushlookmanoldbetterthoughtfeelsurewentplace
Topic clusters

Topic 0

bush
people
urllink
kerry
think
like
vote
president

Topic 1

urllink
work
time
like
good
people
know
new

Topic 2

god
church
people
urllink
life
man
thing
think

Topic 3

best
film
like
think
good
time
know
year

Topic 4

race
run
work
time
good
urllink
today
win

Topic 5

time
day
know
good
life
week
like
come

Topic 6

love
feel
life
know
time
like
heart
think

Topic 7

student
school
brad
time
day
great
like
year

Topic 8

time
work
know
people
thing
wendy
woman
life
Top hashtags
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Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
blog-authorship-male-30s
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
541
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, 73.9 MB across 1456 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 — Male Bloggers (33–47) [Data set]. https://blog-authorship-male-30s.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 — Male Bloggers (33–47). 2006, blog-authorship-male-30s.echo.directory/.

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