Relational Dataset Repository

Shakespeare

Alternative names: OSS

The Open Source Shakespeare is a collection of Shakespeare's complete works. This is a much more interesting data set than some boring imaginary online retailer. In this dataset, people die! The task is to predict the character, who speaks the lines.

Original source: www.opensourceshakespeare.org

Versions

  • Shakespeare (by Jan Motl)

    • We use a normalized database schema from https://github.com/mozz100/bardofavon.

Dataset details

Associated task:
Classification
Domain:
Entertainment
Data types:
Size:
8.8 MB
Count of tables:
4
Count of rows:
35,234
Count of columns:
19
Missing values:
No
Compound keys:
No
Loops:
No
Type:
Real
Instance count:
32,980
Target table:
paragraphs
Target column:
character_id
Target ID:
id
Target timestamp:
?

References

How to download the dataset

The datasets are publicly available directly from MariaDB database.

  1. Open your favourite MariaDB client (MySQL Workbench works, but see FAQ)
  2. Use following credentials:
    • hostname: db.relational-data.org
    • port: 3306
    • username: guest
    • password: relational
  3. Export "Shakespeare" database (or other version of the dataset, if available) in your favourite format (e.g. CSV or SQL dump).