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YOLOv5: The Object Detection Model That Became Open Source Infrastructure

Glenn Jocher, Ayush Chaurasia, Alex Stoken et al. · 2022

New AI object detection software achieves world-record accuracy while attracting massive developer interest with collaborative development

3,578👁 1,316,875
10.5281/zenodo.7347926
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Four Decades of China's Environmental Transformation Captured

Jie Yang, Xin Huang · 2026

Four decades of satellite data reveal dramatic shifts in China's landscape using 335,709 Landsat images and machine learning analysis.

2,864,799👁 405,586
10.5281/zenodo.18180184
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Twitter's Pandemic Memory: 380,000 Downloads and Counting

Banda, Juan M., Tekumalla, Ramya, Wang, Guanyu et al. · 2023

Three years of pandemic tweets reveal shifting public discourse as researchers worldwide analyze 380K downloads of COVID-19 social data

380,882👁 361,656
10.5281/zenodo.7834392
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The Global Database Mapping Every Country's Hidden Environmental Footprint

Stadler, Konstantin, Wood, Richard, Bulavskaya, Tatyana et al. · 2025

EXIOBASE 3 tracks environmental costs of consumption across 49 regions from 1995-2022, downloaded nearly half a million times

464,245👁 356,595
10.5281/zenodo.15689391
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CORD-19: The 400,000-Paper Dataset That Became COVID Research Infrastructure

Thanasis Vergoulis, Ilias Kanellos, Serafeim Chatzopoulos et al. · 2023

New dataset reveals influence patterns across 628,506 COVID-19 research papers, showing how scientific impact spread during the pandemic

72,989👁 355,901
10.5281/zenodo.7559361
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RAVDESS: The Emotional Speech Database Behind a Generation of Affective Computing

Livingstone, Steven R., Russo, Frank A. · 2018

7,356 audio and video recordings of 24 professional actors expressing 8 emotions. The gold standard dataset for emotion AI.

1,189,323👁 332,288
10.5281/zenodo.1188976
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The Global Assessment of Biodiversity That 132 Governments Couldn't Ignore

IPBES · 2019

The landmark UN biodiversity assessment draws unprecedented attention from policymakers worldwide as species extinction accelerates

238,752👁 329,075
10.5281/zenodo.3553579
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One Million Species Face Extinction Within Decades

IPBES · 2019

IPBES global assessment reveals unprecedented species loss rates and ecosystem collapse across five major threat categories

292,295👁 252,607
10.5281/zenodo.6417333
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AI Maps China's Entire Landscape Down to Single Meters

Zhuohong Li, Wei He, Mofan Cheng et al. · 2023

Groundbreaking AI system maps China's entire landmass at unprecedented 1-meter resolution, downloaded 539K times by researchers worldwide

539,366👁 246,083
10.5281/zenodo.8214871
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The EU's Food Safety Alert Database: 20 Years of Border Notifications, Now Open

EFSA BIOHAZ Panel, Allende, Ana, Alvarez-Ordonez, Avelino et al. · 2026

EFSA's qualified presumption of safety list has expanded dramatically since 2007, with 74K downloads showing rising industry interest

74,278👁 170,560
10.5281/zenodo.18329226
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One 1997 Dataset Still Powers AI Emotion Detection

Lyons, Michael, Kamachi, Miyuki, Gyoba, Jiro · 1997

Pioneering facial expression dataset from 1997 becomes cornerstone of modern AI emotion detection with massive research adoption.

26,570👁 154,366
10.5281/zenodo.14974867
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Germany's Pandemic in Numbers: Daily Cases, Deaths, and Vaccinations Across 16 States

Robert Koch-Institut · 2026

Analysis of 137k downloads shows how Germany tracked infections, deaths, and recoveries from 2020 through 2026 across all districts

137,063👁 150,087
10.5281/zenodo.18950845
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ICU Capacity Under Pressure: Germany's Hospital Occupancy Data Through Three COVID Waves

Robert Koch-Institut · 2026

Analysis of 6 years of RKI data reveals how Germany's healthcare system weathered COVID waves with nowcasting predictions

109,632👁 138,422
10.5281/zenodo.18950984
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Consumer Devices Now Read Emotions Like Medical Equipment

Katsigiannis, Stamos, Ramzan, Naeem · 2017

Research shows wireless consumer devices match medical-grade equipment for emotion detection, opening doors for everyday mental health monitoring

18,764👁 66,143
10.1109/JBHI.2017.2688239
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Every Mammal on Earth, in One Living Database

Mammal Diversity Database (American Society of Mammalogists) · 2026

Every mammal on Earth in one database — the living catalog maintained by the American Society of Mammalogists, covering 6,600+ species with taxonomy, distribution, and conservation status.

44,030👁 62,458
10.5281/zenodo.18135819
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274 Years of Emissions: The Most Complete Record of Humanity's Atmospheric Fingerprint

Gutschow, Johannes; Busch, Daniel; Pfluger, Mika · 2025

74K downloads of the most comprehensive national emissions time series — harmonized greenhouse gas data from 1750 to 2024 covering CO₂, CH₄, N₂O, and fluorinated gases.

74,738👁 62,187
10.5281/zenodo.17090760
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CoVaxxy: 3.5 Million Downloads of the Dataset Mapping COVID-19 Vaccine Discourse on Twitter

DeVerna, M., Pierri, F., Truong, B., Bollenbacher, J., Axelrod, D., Loynes, N., Torres-Lugo, C., Yang, K.-C., Menczer, F., Bryden, J. · 2021

3.5M downloads. The massive Tweet ID collection that mapped how vaccine conversations — and misinformation — spread on social media.

3,571,097👁 42,997
10.5281/zenodo.7752586
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Medical AI Gets Its Biggest Training Dataset Yet

JI YUANFENG · 2022

New benchmark dataset with 600 CT/MRI scans across 15 organs becomes most downloaded medical AI resource with 81K downloads

81,115👁 39,831
10.5281/zenodo.7262581
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197K Downloads: What 28 Mental Health Subreddits Reveal About Distress During COVID-19

Low, D. M., Rumker, L., Talker, T., Torous, J., Cecchi, G., Ghosh, S. S. · 2020

197K downloads. When the world locked down, Reddit became a lifeline — and this dataset let researchers understand mental health at scale.

197,264👁 34,100
10.5281/zenodo.3941387
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A Neonatal EEG Dataset for Seizure Detection: 79 Recordings, Expert-Annotated

Nathan Stevenson, Karoliina Tapani, Leena Lauronen et al. · 2018

New research tracking 79 newborns shows experts disagree on seizure detection 30% of the time, highlighting urgent need for automated systems.

288,008👁 33,878
10.5281/zenodo.4940267
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They Mapped Every Dollar Earned on Earth Since 1850

Wang, Tianyi, Sun, Fubao · 2023

A grid-level reconstruction of global economic output from 1850 to 2100 under multiple climate scenarios. 68K downloads.

68,000👁 31,000
10.5281/zenodo.7898409
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Most Cyber Attacks Are Encrypted Now. Training Data Wasn't.

Ferriyan, A., Thamrin, A. H., Takeda, K. · 2022

Encrypted and real attack traffic for training next-gen intrusion detection systems. 21K downloads from security researchers worldwide.

21,219👁 29,265
10.5281/zenodo.6463389
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The Chest CT Dataset That Became Medical AI's X-Ray Vision

Draelos, Rachel Lea, Dov, David, Mazurowski, Maciej A. · 2020

Massive annotated chest CT scan dataset powering deep learning in medical imaging. 5.6 million downloads and counting.

5,649,033👁 28,000
10.5281/zenodo.6406114
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1.3 Million Downloads of China's Vertical Dimension, Measured from Orbit

Wu, Wanben · 2023

First national-scale 10m resolution building height dataset for China — 1.3M downloads reveal the vertical dimension of urbanization.

1,331,459👁 24,956
10.5281/zenodo.7923866
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10 Seconds of Urban Sound, 8,732 Times: A Taxonomy of New York's Acoustic Environment

Cartwright, Mark; Cramer, Jason; Salamon, Justin; Bello, Juan Pablo · 2019

The largest urban sound monitoring dataset — 18,000+ audio recordings from NYC streets, tagged by citizen scientists and verified by experts.

62,000👁 24,000
10.5281/zenodo.3966543
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EEGEyeNet: When Eye-Tracking Meets EEG in a Single Benchmark Dataset

Grégoire Cattan, Pedro L. C. Rodrigues, Marco Congedo · 2018

French researchers' brain wave dataset becomes most-downloaded EEG resource, revealing how 20 subjects' neural data drives global neuroscience

115,894👁 20,561
10.5281/zenodo.2605110
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Where Did Eight Billion People Go? A 33-Year Investigation

Ran, Youhua; Wang, Xin; Ge, Yong; Li, Xiaoming · 2024

The most downloaded population dataset on Zenodo — 273K downloads of 1km gridded population data from 1990 to 2022, covering every inhabited continent.

273,000👁 20,000
10.5281/zenodo.11179644
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DOSE: Subnational Economic Output for 1,500 Regions, Because National Averages Lie

Wenz, Leonie, Carr, Robert D., Kalkuhl, Matthias, Kotz, Maximilian · 2024

Subnational GDP for 1,661 regions in 166 countries. DOSE reveals the economies hidden inside economies.

19,000👁 17,000
10.5281/zenodo.16313760
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Watching Concrete Spread Across the Planet

Ren, Huiqun; Huang, Xin; Yang, Jie; Zhou, Guoqing · 2024

1.5M downloads — watching concrete spread across the planet, one 30-meter pixel at a time. 36 years of impervious surface mapping.

1,486,567👁 15,426
10.5281/zenodo.14848113
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How Cells Talk to Each Other: The Datasets Behind 229K Downloads

Browaeys, Robin; Saelens, Wouter; Saeys, Yvan · 2019

How cells talk to each other — 229K downloads of the datasets powering intercellular communication research, linking ligands to target genes across signaling and regulatory networks.

229,399👁 14,917
10.5281/zenodo.3260758
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Someone Finally Counted Every Solar Panel on Earth

Kruitwagen, Lucas; Story, Kyle T.; Friedrich, Johannes; Byers, Logan · 2021

The first comprehensive global inventory of solar PV installations — 68 million units catalogued from satellite imagery and administrative records.

16,000👁 14,000
10.5281/zenodo.5005868
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Measuring Sunlight at Machine Speed

Sheffield Solar, University of Sheffield · 2024

Continuous solar irradiance measurements powering real-time PV output estimation across monitoring networks. 32K downloads.

32,000👁 13,000
10.5281/zenodo.17079486
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Teaching Machines to Tell Malware Families Apart

Catak, F. O., Yazi, A. F. · 2019

14K downloads. A curated malware sample collection for training next-gen threat detection classifiers.

13,877👁 11,603
10.5281/zenodo.3293593
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406K Downloads: The Atlas Mapping Gene Regulation Across Eight Brain Cell Types

Bryois, Julien · 2021

406K downloads — the dataset mapping how genes are regulated differently across 8 major brain cell types, revealing the genetic architecture of the human brain at cellular resolution.

406,104👁 11,518
10.5281/zenodo.7276971
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Every Raindrop Counted: 63 Years of Precipitation Across China

Hu, Jinlong; Miao, Chiyuan; Zhang, Qi · 2025

171K downloads of the most detailed daily precipitation dataset for Chinese mainland — incorporating spatial autocorrelation and covariates from 1961 to 2024.

171,687👁 10,349
10.5281/zenodo.15735374
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The Open-Source Blueprint of Europe's Power Grid

Horsch, Jonas; Hofmann, Fabian; Schlachtberger, David; Glaum, Philipp; Neumann, Fabian; Brown, Tom; Riepin, Iegor; Xiong, Bobby; Schledorn, Amos · 2026

The open-source blueprint of Europe's power grid — 371K downloads driving the renewable energy transition across the full ENTSO-E area.

371,027👁 10,321
10.5281/zenodo.18164492
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Sleep, Screen Time, and Sentiment: A 100,000-Row Dataset Linking Lifestyle to Mental Health

Sharma, Priya, Gupta, Ankit · 2024

Survey data linking sleep, exercise, diet, and screen time to mental health outcomes. 7K downloads powering sentiment analysis research.

7,000👁 7,800
10.5281/zenodo.14838661
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The Hidden Wiring of the Global Food System, Finally Mapped

Bruckner, Martin, Wood, Richard, Moran, Daniel, Kuschnig, Nikolas, Wieland, Hanspeter, Maus, Victor, Borner, Jan · 2019

A 28-year multi-regional input-output model tracking biomass flows from field to fork across 192 countries.

36,000👁 7,600
10.5281/zenodo.2577067
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1.7 Million Downloads. 7,077 Voices Finally Heard.

Narain, Jaya; Johnson, Kristina Teresa · 2021

7,077 labeled vocalizations from non-speaking individuals are powering the next generation of assistive technology.

1,668,243👁 6,491
10.5281/zenodo.5786860
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The Yardstick Collection That Measures Whether Machines Understand Opinion

Mukherjee, Subhabrata, Bhattacharyya, Pushpak · 2022

Curated benchmark datasets for sentiment analysis spanning reviews, tweets, and multilingual text. 7.6K downloads driving NLP research.

7,600👁 6,400
10.5281/zenodo.10157504
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ChinaCropPhen1km: Phenological Observations for Every Crop Across China's Agricultural Belt

Li, Tianyu; Long, Di; Wang, Jianli · 2020

High-resolution crop yield and water productivity data across China from 2001 to 2015, revealing agricultural shifts at unprecedented detail.

2,200👁 3,100
10.5281/zenodo.5797817
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What Makes a City Work? 192 Answers on One Grid

Lepetit, Quentin; Viguie, Vincent; Liotta, Charlotte · 2021

What makes a city work? Comparing density, transport, and housing costs across 192 cities worldwide in one unified gridded dataset.

5,279👁 2,570
10.5281/zenodo.7086267
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The Ocean's Invisible Forests: 27 Years of Phytoplankton, Seen from Space

Shujie Yu; Yan Bai; Teng Li; Xianqiang He · 2024

88K downloads of the merged ocean color dataset tracking chlorophyll-a concentration since 1997 — essential for understanding marine productivity and climate change.

88,862👁 2,241
10.5281/zenodo.11069525
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149 New Worlds, Hiding in the Light of Distant Stars

Mayo, Andrew W.; Vanderburg, Andrew; Latham, David W.; et al. · 2018

Transit posteriors and validation analyses for 275 exoplanet candidates across 233 star systems from K2 Campaigns 0-10.

22,095👁 1,823
10.5281/zenodo.1164791
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Things That Go Bump in the Night: Mapping Black Hole Collisions by Mass

Farah, Amanda M.; Edelman, Bruce; Zevin, Michael; Fishbach, Maya; Ezquiaga, Jose Maria; Farr, Ben; Holz, Daniel · 2022

500 mock catalogs and hyperposterior samples reveal the mass distribution of merging black holes detected by LIGO.

27,068👁 517
10.5281/zenodo.7411991