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SwissText Hackathon Swissdox

On this page, you find an overview of the data for the SwissText Hackathon 2023 (https://www.swisstext.org/swissdox-hackathon/).

Sources

The dataset consists of 100,000 articles each from 9 newspapers from Switzerland, 5 of them published in German, 4 in French. The articles from the German newspapers span the years 1996 - 2023, the French ones 1998 - 2023. The data comes from the collaboration between Swissdox and LiRI in the project Swissdox@LiRI.

acronym source name
German BAZ Basler Zeitung
BU Der Bund
BZ Berner Zeitung
NZZ Neue Zürcher Zeitung
TA Tages-Anzeiger
French HEU 24 Heures
TDG Tribune de Genève
TLM Le Matin
TPS Le Temps

The following table gives an overview of the articles per year and source included in the dataset:

German French
year BAZ BU BZ NZZ TA HEU TDG TLM TPS
1996 3 213 3 681 0 3 681 3 681 - - - -
1997 3 272 3 681 0 3 681 3 681 - - - -
1998 3 270 3 681 1 333 3 681 3 681 3 968 3 968 3 984 3 968
1999 3 626 3 681 5 300 3 681 3 681 3 968 3 968 3 985 3 968
2000 4 081 3 681 5 299 3 681 3 681 5 000 3 968 3 985 3 968
2001 3 853 3 681 5 299 3 681 3 681 5 000 3 968 3 985 3 968
2002 3 884 3 681 5 299 3 681 3 681 5 001 3 968 3 985 3 968
2003 3 884 3 681 5 299 3 681 3 681 3 852 3 968 2 595 3 968
2004 3 884 3 681 5 299 3 681 3 681 5 001 3 968 5 165 3 968
2005 3 842 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 2 729 3 968 5 165 3 968
2006 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 0 3 968 5 165 3 968
2007 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 0 3 968 5 165 3 968
2008 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 5 001 3 968 5 165 3 968
2009 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 5 000 3 968 5 165 3 968
2010 3 681 3 680 3 681 3 680 3 680 5 000 3 968 5 165 3 968
2011 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 5 000 3 968 5 165 3 968
2012 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 5 000 3 968 5 165 3 968
2013 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 968 3 968 5 165 3 968
2014 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 968 3 968 5 165 3 968
2015 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 968 3 968 5 166 3 968
2016 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 968 3 968 5 166 3 968
2017 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 969 3 969 5 167 3 969
2018 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 969 3 969 5 167 3 969
2019 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 969 3 969 0 3 969
2020 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 969 3 969 0 3 969
2021 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 969 3 969 0 3 969
2022 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 681 3 969 3 969 0 3 969
2023 614 614 614 614 614 794 794 0 794
100 000 100 000 100 000 100 000 100 000 100 000 100 000 100 000 100 000

Collecting 100,000 articles evenly distributed over n years would ideally result in a fixed number of articles per year per source. However, because this amount of articles is not available for all sources per year, the actual numbers of provided articles differ slightly. The missing articles for a year (or several years) have been collected from adjacent years in which more articles were available: E.g. for BZ 100,000 articles evenly distributed over 27 years and 2 months would result in selecting 3,681/year. However, there are no articles available for 1996/97 and only 1,333 for the year 1998. Therefore, the missing articles were evenly distributed over the following 6 years as additional selected articles.

For your participation at the hackathon, you are free in your choice of sources, you may e.g. only want to use French texts, or only those dealing with your topic of interest, such as migration or climate change, or you are also free to add data of your own and copmare or correlate, such as tweets, Worry Barometer, outcomes of votes, seasons, important events such as summits, earth quakes, financial crises.

Data Structure

The name of an article is a UUID.

Log in and accept the terms of use

You have been sent an email from noreply@linguistik.uzh.ch with the title “[LiRI account manager] Invitation for Swissdox@LiRI”. When you open the link, you will need to log in using your SWITCH edu-ID, and accept the terms of use for Swissdox@LiRI. Please observe the conditions, for instance that the raw data must be deleted six months after the end of the project.

Log in to the LiRI service Swissdox

Download the data

After logging in, make sure that the project “Swissdox Hackathon” is selected (top right) as shown in the following screenshot.

Swiss Hackathon as selected project

Select the tab “Retrieved datasets”. You now see the list of the 9 Swiss newspapers. Download each of them separately using the arrow in the second last column.

Download each newspaper

Contact

If you have any questions or feedback concerning the data, please write to swissdox@linguistik.uzh.ch

We are looking forward to an exciting workshop.