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Ningze123/cis5190-news-source-headlines

Fox News vs NBC News Headlines Dataset collected for the CIS 4190 / 5190 Applied Machine Learning final project (Spring 2026, Project B: News Source Classification). Summary Task: Binary text classification — predict the source (FoxNews vs NBC) of an English news headline. Rows: ~3,805 unique headlines (after deduplication 3,783). Columns: url — original article URL headline — the headline text source — one of FoxNews or NBC Class balance: roughly 53% FoxNews /… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Ningze123/cis5190-news-source-headlines.

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Fox News vs NBC News Headlines

Dataset collected for the CIS 4190 / 5190 Applied Machine Learning final project (Spring 2026, Project B: News Source Classification).

Summary

—Task: Binary text classification — predict the source (FoxNews vs NBC) of an English news headline.
—Rows: ~3,805 unique headlines (after deduplication 3,783).
—Columns:
—url — original article URL
—headline — the headline text
—source — one of FoxNews or NBC
—Class balance: roughly 53% FoxNews / 47% NBC.
—Split convention used by our notebooks: train_test_split(test_size=0.2, random_state=42, stratify=label) after dropping NaN/blank/duplicate headlines.

Source

Headlines were scraped from the public homepages and category landing pages of foxnews.com and nbcnews.com. URLs are kept for reproducibility but are not used by our model — only the text of the headline is fed to the classifier.

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite the CIS 5190 final project report submitted on May 6, 2026.