hamsterster — Hamsterster pet social network (2017)

Description

Social networks of the users of hamsterster.com, a social website for hamster (and other small pet) owners, in which each user profile is a pet, as crawled and distributed by KONECT:

full: friendships and family links between the users. Each node is a user, and an undirected edge connects two users who are friends, or whose profiles belong to the same household (the edge property family tells which). The users have the metadata of their profiles.
households: the family links (links between profiles of the same household) only, from a separate KONECT dataset, whose user indices are not those of full, and without metadata. It has 4,032 links, while full has 4,097 family links.

KONECT also distributes the friendships alone (petster-friendships-hamster and petster-hamster-friend, identical up to the numbering of the users); they are not included as separate networks, since they are the edges of full that are not family links.

The networks have the following properties:

(Node) full: name, the name of the pet; joined, the date the profile was created; species, e.g. Hamster (Syrian); coloring; gender; birthday; age (as given, e.g. 49 months or Gone to Hamster Heaven); hometown; favorite_toy and favorite_food (all as given in the profile; empty for the 5 users without metadata). The data also have a field for the favorite activity, which is left out, since it is identical to the favorite toy for all users (an error of the data).
(Edge) family (full only): whether the edge is a family link (otherwise a friendship).

Tags

Social Online Unweighted Metadata

Added

2026-10-27

Citation

J. Kunegis, "Hamsterster full network dataset." KONECT, the Koblenz Network Collection (2017) konect.cc
J. Kunegis, "KONECT -- The Koblenz Network Collection." Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web Companion, 1343-1350 (2013) 10.1145/2487788.2488173 Sci-Hub

Upstream URL OK

http://konect.cc/networks/petster-hamster
http://konect.cc/networks/petster-hamster-household

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
full	2,426	16,631	13.71	19.87	48.28	62.06	0.05	0.23	10	0.82	Undirected	Unipartite	name joined species coloring gender birthday age hometown favorite_toy favorite_food	family	127 KiB	189 KiB	186 KiB	176 KiB
households	921	4,032	8.76	14.85	30.06	7.84	-0.12	0.13	8	0.95	Undirected	Unipartite			20 KiB	30 KiB	29 KiB	25 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.