TED is devoted to spreading powerful ideas on just about any topic. These datasets contain over 4,000 TED talks including transcripts in many languages Founded in 1984 by Richard Salman as a nonprofit organization that aimed at bringing experts from the fields of Technology, Entertainment, and Design together, TED Conferences have gone on to become the Mecca of ideas from virtually all walks of life. As of 2015, TED and its sister TEDx chapters have published more than 2000 talks for free consumption by the masses and its speaker list boasts of the likes of Al Gore, Jimmy Wales, Shahrukh Khan, and Bill Gates.
Dataset info
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Number of records: 4,005
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Number of attributes: 19
Features information:
The dataset contains features like:
- talk_id: Talk identification number provided by TED
- title: Title of the talk
- speaker_1: First speaker in TED's speaker list
- all_speakers: Speakers in the talk
- occupations: Occupations of the speakers
- about_speakers: Blurb about each speaker
- recorded_date: Date the talk was recorded
- published_date: Date the talk was published to TED.com
- event: Event or medium in which the talk was given
- native_lang: Language the talk was given in
- available_lang: All available languages (lang_code) for a talk
- comments: Count of comments
- duration: Duration in seconds
- topics: Related tags or topics for the talk
- related_talks: Related talks (key='talk_id',value='title')
- url: URL of the talk
- description: Description of the talk
- transcript: Full transcript of the talk
Target Variable :
- views: Contains Count of views of every talk