foursquare_global — Foursquare global check-ins and friendships (2012-2014)

Description

A global data set of check-ins and social ties of users of the location-based social network Foursquare, collected by D. Yang and collaborators. Since Foursquare check-ins are not publicly accessible, they were obtained from Foursquare-tagged tweets in Twitter's public stream between April 2012 and January 2014, keeping only active users (with at least one check-in per month). Since Foursquare friendships are not publicly available either, the social ties were obtained from Twitter: for each user, their Twitter followers and followees were crawled, and two users are connected if they follow each other. Users without social ties were removed, and only users appearing in both friendship snapshots were kept. The entry contains the following networks:

checkins: a bipartite network of users and venues (points of interest), where each edge is a check-in of a user at a venue, worldwide. The network contains 22,809,624 check-ins by 114,324 users at 3,820,891 venues; repeated check-ins of a user at the same venue appear as parallel edges.
friendship_old: an undirected social network among the users, from a snapshot taken before the check-in collection period (March 2012), with 363,704 friendships.
friendship_new: the same, from a snapshot taken after the check-in collection period (May 2014), with 607,333 friendships.

The two friendship networks have the same node set. The networks have the following properties:

(Node) name: the anonymized user ID (an integer, the same in all three networks) or, in checkins, the Foursquare venue ID (a hexadecimal string).
(Node) is_user (checkins only): whether the node is a user (True) or a venue (False).
(Node) latitude and longitude (checkins only): coordinates of the venue, in degrees.
(Node) venue_cat (checkins only): the Foursquare category of the venue (e.g. "Train Station").
(Node) country (checkins only): the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of the country of the venue.
(Edge) timestamp (edges, checkins only): the time of the check-in (UTC).
(Edge) timezone_offset (edges, checkins only): the offset in minutes between the local time of the check-in and UTC (UTC time plus the offset gives the local time).

Tags

Social Online Unweighted Metadata Timestamps

Added

2020-08-11

Citation

D. Yang, B. Qu, J. Yang, and P. Cudré-Mauroux, "Revisiting User Mobility and Social Relationships in LBSNs: A Hypergraph Embedding Approach." The World Wide Web Conference (WWW '19), 2147-2157 (2019) 10.1145/3308558.3313635 Sci-Hub

Upstream URL OK

https://sites.google.com/site/yangdingqi/home/foursquare-dataset

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
checkins	3,935,215	22,809,624	11.59	62.44	163.10	1016.53	0.02	0.00	14	1.00	Undirected	Bipartite	name is_user latitude longitude venue_cat country	timestamp timezone_offset	217.9 MiB	325.7 MiB	322.7 MiB	335.3 MiB
friendship_old	114,324	363,704	6.36	13.59	79.68	753.87	0.13	0.12	28	0.92	Undirected	Unipartite	name		2.8 MiB	4.0 MiB	3.9 MiB	3.4 MiB
friendship_new	114,324	607,333	10.62	20.95	124.67	538.54	0.15	0.13	29	0.96	Undirected	Unipartite	name		3.3 MiB	4.9 MiB	4.8 MiB	4.3 MiB