Category: dataset
Question: How to search for datasets on Kaggle?

Answer: Datasets is not just a simple data repository. Each dataset is a community where you can discuss data, discover public code and techniques, and create your own projects in Notebooks. You can find many different interesting datasets of all shapes and sizes if you take the time to look around and find them!

The latest and greatest from Datasets is surfaced on Kaggle in several different places.

## Newsfeed

When you’re logged into your Kaggle account, the [Kaggle homepage](https://kaggle.com/) provides a live newsfeed of what people are doing on the platform. New Datasets uploaded by people you follow and hot Datasets with lots of activity will show up here. By browsing down the page you can check out all the latest updates from your fellow Kagglers.

You can tweak your news feed to your liking by following other Kagglers. To follow someone, go to their profile page and click on “Follow User”. Content posted and upvotes made by users you have followed will show up more prominently.

The same is true of other users who choose to follow you. Post high-quality content and you will soon find other users following along with what you are doing!

## Datasets Listing

A more structured way of accessing datasets is accessible from the “Datasets” tab in the main menu bar.

Datasets are grouped by different categories: "Trending Datasets", "Popular Datasets", "Recently Viewed Datasets" and a few other rotating categories.

At the bottom of this page, you can click on the "Explore all public datasets" button to get a list view of all datasets. The list is sorted by “Hotness” by default. “Hotness” is what it sounds like: a way of measuring the interestingness and recency of datasets on the platform. Datasets which score highly in Hotness, and thus appear highly in this list, are usually either recently released Datasets that have been marked Reviewed and are scoring highly in engagement, or “all-time” greats that have been consistently popular on the platform for a long time.

Other methods of sorting are by Most Votes, New, Updated and Usability.

Other filtering options, available from the navigation bar, are Sizes (Small, Medium, or Large), File types (CSV, SQLite, JSON, BigQuery), Licenses (Creative Commons, GPL, Other Database, Other), and Tags (described in the next section).

You can also use the listing to view your own Datasets (“Your Datasets”), or to look at datasets you have previously bookmarked ("Bookmarks").

Finally, a Datasets-specific search bar is available here. This is often the fastest way to find a specific dataset that you are looking for.

## Tags and Tag Pages

Tags are the most advanced of the searching options available in the Datasets listing page. Tags are added by dataset owners to indicate the topic of the Dataset, techniques you can use (e.g., “classification”), or the type of the data itself (e.g., “text data”). You can navigate to tag pages to browse more content sharing a tag either by clicking on a tag on a Dataset, or by clicking on the “Tags” dropdown in the site header.

Searching by tags allow you to search for Datasets by topical area. For example, if you are interested in animal shelter data you might try a search with the tag “animals”; if you are interested in police records a search with “crime” would do the trick.

Tag pages include a section listing the most popular pages with the given tag, making them a great way of searching for datasets by content.