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facebook_friends — Maier Facebook friends (2014)

Description

The anonymized Facebook friendship network of B. F. Maier, collected in fall 2014. Nodes are the Facebook profiles of his friends, and an undirected edge connects two profiles that are "friends" on Facebook. The ego node (Maier's own profile), which was connected to every other node, has been removed, so the network has several connected components (the largest has 329 nodes). The network was used as an example in a study of random-walk cover times.

The network has the following properties:

  • (Node) context_0, context_1, context_2, context_3: up to four free-text labels given by the ego to describe the social context of the relationship with that person (e.g. "school", "uni", "choir", "family", "friend of friend"); unused labels are empty.
Tags
Social Online Unweighted Metadata
Added
2020-08-11
Citation
  • B. F. Maier and D. Brockmann, "Cover time for random walks on arbitrary complex networks." Phys. Rev. E 96, 042307 (2017) arXiv:1706.02356
Upstream URL OK
https://github.com/benmaier/BFMaierFBnetwork
Networks
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Column legend
$\left<k\right>$
Mean degree
$\sigma_k$
Standard deviation of the degrees
$\lambda_h$
Largest eigenvalue of the Hashimoto (non-backtracking) matrix
$\tau$
Random walk mixing time
$r$
Degree assortativity
$c$
Global clustering coefficient
$\oslash$
(Pseudo-) diameter
$S$
Relative size of the largest component
NPs
Node properties
EPs
Edge properties
Name Nodes Edges $\left<k\right>$ $\sigma_k$ $\lambda_h$ $\tau$ $r$ $c$ $\oslash$ $S$ Kind Mode NPs EPs gt GraphML GML csv
facebook_friends 362 1,988 10.98 10.83 23.30 78.68 0.10 0.51 9 0.91 Undirected Unipartite context_0 context_1 context_2 context_3 name 10 KiB 13 KiB 16 KiB 13 KiB
Ridiculograms*
* These are automatically generated force-directed visualizations, and can be quite meaningless for networks both big and small. They should not be taken seriously as sources of scientific insight. See here for a discussion.