Social circles: Facebook

Open Dataset
Creators:
McAuley, Julian; Leskovec, Jure
Publication Date:
2012
Data Category:
Dataset Description:
This dataset consists of 'circles' (or 'friends lists') from Facebook. Facebook data was collected from survey participants using this Facebook app. The dataset includes node features (profiles), circles, and ego networks, offering valuable insights into the structure and characteristics of social connections. The dataset includes 4,039 nodes and 88,234 edges. Facebook data has been anonymized by replacing the Facebook-internal ids for each user with a new value. The dataset is approximately 0.01 GB in size.

The dataset is structured into:​

  • Node features (profiles): Anonymized user profile information, where specific attributes (e.g., political affiliation) are replaced with generic labels (e.g., 'anonymized feature 1').

  • Circles: Lists of friends grouped by users, representing their social circles.​

  • Ego networks: Subgraphs centered around individual users (egos), including their direct friends and the connections among those friends.​

Publications Citing This Dataset:
Shah Rukh Humayoun, Hafez Ezaiza, Ragaad AlTarawneh, and Achim Ebert. 2016. Social-Circles Exploration through Interactive Multi-Layered Chord Layout. In Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI '16). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 314–315. https://doi.org/10.1145/2909132.2926072
Anton Begehr and Peter Panfilov. 2022. Building a Graph-Based Recommender Using Community Embeddings. In Proceedings of the 2022 8th International Conference on Computer Technology Applications (ICCTA '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 121–127.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3543712.3543727
Variables:
Details:
ego network Facebook
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