This multilingual dataset presents 60,127 Instagram posts about Mpox (monkeypox), published between July 23, 2022, and September 5, 2024. This dataset contains Instagram posts about mpox in 52 languages. For each of these posts, the Post ID, Post Description, Date of publication, language, and translated version of the post (translation to English was performed using the Google Translate API) are presented as separate attributes in the dataset.

After developing this dataset, sentiment analysis, hate speech detection, and anxiety or stress detection were also performed.

This process included classifying each post into

• one of the fine-grain sentiment classes, i.e., fear, surprise, joy, sadness, anger, disgust, or neutral
• hate or not hate
• anxiety/stress detected or no anxiety/stress detected

These results are presented as separate attributes in the dataset for the training and testing of machine learning algorithms for sentiment, hate speech, and anxiety or stress detection, as well as for other applications.

The dataset is available at https://zenodo.org/records/13738598, and the paper associated with this dataset is available on Arxiv at https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05292

The following is a description of the attributes present in this dataset

• Post ID: Unique ID of each Instagram post
• Post Description: Complete description of each post in the language in which it was originally published
• Date: Date of publication in MM/DD/YYYY format
• Language: Language of the post as detected using the Google Translate API
• Translated Post Description: Translated version of the post description. All posts which were not in English were translated into English using the Google Translate API. No language translation was performed for English posts.
• Sentiment: Results of sentiment analysis (using translated Post Description) where each post was classified into one of the sentiment classes: fear, surprise, joy, sadness, anger, disgust, and neutral
• Hate: Results of hate speech detection (using translated Post Description) where each post was classified as hate or not hate
• Anxiety or Stress: Results of anxiety or stress detection (using translated Post Description) where each post was classified as stress/anxiety detected or no stress/anxiety detected.