Google+ Social Networks with Node Attributes
Dataset Summary
This published dataset consisting of 4 Google+ snapshots is a subset of the dataset studied in our IMC'12 paper. Each snapshot includes both directed social structure and node attributes, which can be represented by the following Social-Attribute Network. Snapshots 3 and 4 were crawled after Google+ was opened to the public.
Table I. Dataset summary
|
#Social nodes |
#Social links |
#Attri nodes |
#Attri links |
Crawled time |
TimeID |
| snapshot 1 |
4,693,129 |
47,130,325 |
991,545 |
3,644,103 |
Jul., 2011 |
0 |
| snapshot 2 |
17,091,929 |
271,915,755 |
3,108,141 |
14,693,125 |
Aug., 2011 |
1 |
| snapshot 3 |
26,244,659 |
410,445,770 |
4,147,389 |
19,344,382 |
Sep., 2011 |
2 |
| snapshot 4 |
28,942,911 |
462,994,069 |
4,443,631 |
20,592,962 |
Oct., 2011 |
3 |
Dataset Format
Directed social structure
UserIDFrom UserIDTo TimeID
Each line corresponds to a directed link. UserIDs are anonimyzed to be integers starting from 0. TimeID is 0, 1, 2 or 3, indicating the snapshot in which this directed link first appears.
Node attributes
UserID AttriID TimeID
Each line corresponds to an undirected attribute link. AttriID are anonimyzed to be negative integers starting from -1. Again, TimeID is 0, 1, 2 or 3, indicating the snapshot in which this link first appears.
Attribute types
AttriID AttriType
Each line corresponds to an attribute. AttriType could be employer, school, major or places_lived.
Reconstructing the tth Snapshot
To obtain the tth snapshot, you should keep all edges whose TimeIDs are less than t, where t=1,2,3,4.
Papers
- Reciprocal versus Parasocial Relationships in Online Social Networks
Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Wenchang Xu
Springer Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM), 4(1), 2014
- Evolution of Social-Attribute Networks: Measurements, Modeling, and Implications using Google+
Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Wenchang Xu, Ling Huang, Prateek Mittal, Emil Stefanov, Vyas Sekar, Dawn Song
ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2012
- Jointly Predicting Links and Inferring Attributes using a Social-Attribute Network (SAN)
Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Ameet Talwalkar, Lester Mackey, Ling Huang, Richard Shin, Emil Stefanov, Elaine Shi, Dawn Song
ACM Workshop on Social Network Mining and Analysis (SNA-KDD), 2012
Downloading the Dataset
Click here to download.
Note: the raw dataset was originally crawled by Emil Stefanov, Richard Shin, and Elaine Shi, and then processed by Neil Gong.
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