Datasets:

olivierdehaene
/

xkcd

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	language:
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	license:
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	- monolingual
	pretty_name: XKCD
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	- 1K<n<10K
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	# Dataset Card for "XKCD"

	## Table of Contents
	- [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents)
	- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
	- [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
	- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
	- [Data Instances](#data-instances)
	- [Data Fields](#data-fields)
	- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)
	- [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data)
	- [Additional Information](#additional-information)
	- [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)
	- [Contributions](#contributions)

	## Dataset Description

	- Homepage: [https://xkcd.com/](https://xkcd.com/), [https://www.explainxkcd.com](https://www.explainxkcd.com)
	- Repository: [Hugging Face repository](https://huggingface.co/datasets/olivierdehaene/xkcd/tree/main)

	### Dataset Summary

	XKCD is an export of all XKCD comics with their transcript and explanation scrapped from
	[https://explainxkcd.com](https://explainxkcd.com).

	## Dataset Structure

	### Data Instances

	- `id`: `1`
	- `title`: `Barrel - Part 1`
	- `image_title`: `Barrel - Part 1`
	- `url`: `https://www.xkcd.com/1`
	- `image_url`: `https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/barrel_cropped_(1).jpg`
	- `explained_url`: `https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1:_Barrel_-_Part_1`
	- `transcript`: `[A boy sits in a barrel which is floating in an ocean.] Boy: i wonder where i'll float next?
	[A smaller frame with a zoom out of the boy in the barrel seen from afar. The barrel drifts into the distance. Nothing
	else can be seen.]`
	- `explanation`: `The comic shows a young boy floating in a barrel in an ocean that doesn't have a visible end. It
	comments on the unlikely optimism and perhaps naïveté people sometimes display. The boy is completely lost and seems
	hopelessly alone, without any plan or control of the situation. Yet, rather than afraid or worried, he is instead
	quietly curious: "I wonder where I'll float next?" Although not necessarily the situation in this comic, this is a
	behavior people often exhibit when there is nothing they can do about a problematic situation for a long time; they may
	have given up hope or developed a cavalier attitude as a coping mechanism. The title text expands on the philosophical
	content, with the boy representing the average human being: wandering through life with no real plan, quietly
	optimistic, always opportunistic and clueless as to what the future may hold. The isolation of the boy may also
	represent the way in which we often feel lost through life, never knowing quite where we are, believing that there is
	no one to whom to turn. This comic could also reflect on Randall's feelings towards creating xkcd in the first place;
	unsure of what direction the web comic would turn towards, but hopeful that it would eventually become the popular web
	comic that we know today. This is the first in a six-part series of comics whose parts were randomly published during
	the first several dozen strips. The series features a character that is not consistent with what would quickly become
	the xkcd stick figure style. The character is in a barrel. In 1110: Click and Drag there is a reference to this comic
	at 1 North, 48 East . After Randall released the full The Boy and his Barrel story on xkcd, it has been clear that the
	original Ferret story should also be included as part of the barrel series. The full series can be found here . They
	are listed below in the order Randall chose for the short story above: `

	### Data Fields

	- `id`
	- `title`
	- `url`: xkcd.com URL
	- `image_url`
	- `explained_url`: explainxkcd.com URL
	- `transcript`: english text transcript of the comic
	- `explanation`: english explanation of the comic

	## Dataset Creation

	The dataset was scrapped from both explainxkcd.com and xkcd.com.
	The dataset is therefore licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license for
	the `transcript` and `explanation` fields, while the image itself is licensed under the
	Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 license.

	See the [Copyrights](https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/explain_xkcd:Copyrights) page from
	explainxkcd.com for more explanations.

	### Update

	You can update the dataset by using the `scrapper.py` script.
	First install the dependencies:

	```bash
	pip install aiolimiter aiohttp beautifulsoup4 pandas
	```

	Then run the script:

	```bash
	python scrapper.py
	```

	## Considerations for Using the Data

	As the data was scrapped, it is entirely possible that some fields are missing part of the original data.

	## Additional Information

	### Licensing Information

	The dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license for
	the `transcript` and `explanation` fields, while the images are licensed under the
	Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 license.

	### Contributions

	Thanks to [@OlivierDehaene](https://github.com/OlivierDehaene) for adding this dataset.