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sp_high_school — High school temporal contacts (2013)

Description

Networks of contacts and friendships among the students of nine classes of a high school (the "classes préparatoires" Lycée Thiers) in Marseilles, France, collected by the SocioPatterns collaboration in December 2013. Nodes are students. The data were collected through four techniques, each giving a separate network:

  • proximity: face-to-face proximity contacts measured by wearable sensors over 5 days (2 to 6 December 2013). Each edge is a contact between two students active during a 20-second interval of the data collection, so that a pair of students is connected by one edge per interval in which they were in contact.
  • diaries: directed network of contacts reported by the students in contact diaries filled at the end of the fourth day of the data collection. An edge $i \to j$ means that student $i$ reported a contact with student $j$; the weight encodes the reported cumulative duration of contact during the day.
  • survey: directed network of friendships reported in a survey, where an edge $i \to j$ means that student $i$ reported a friendship with student $j$.
  • facebook: undirected network of Facebook friendships, among the pairs of students for which the presence or absence of the Facebook friendship is known. Only the pairs that are linked on Facebook are included as edges, so that the absence of an edge does not imply that the friendship is known to be absent.

All networks include the 329 students in the metadata file, including those without any edges in a given network.

The networks have the following properties:

  • (Node) id: the anonymous identifier of the student.
  • (Node) class: the class of the student (e.g. MP*1, PC, 2BIO3).
  • (Node) gender: the gender of the student (M, F or Unknown).
  • (Edge) time (proximity): the end of the 20-second interval $[t - 20\,\text{s}, t]$ during which the contact was active, as a UNIX timestamp in seconds.
  • (Edge) weight (diaries): the reported cumulative duration of the contacts, 1 for at most 5 minutes, 2 for 5 to 15 minutes, 3 for 15 minutes to 1 hour, and 4 for more than 1 hour.
Tags
Social Offline Unweighted Weighted Temporal Metadata
Added
2020-08-11
Citation
  • R. Mastrandrea, et al., "Contact Patterns in a High School: A Comparison between Data Collected Using Wearable Sensors, Contact Diaries and Friendship Surveys." PLoS ONE 10(9), e0136497 (2015) 10.1371/journal.pone.0136497 Sci-Hub
Upstream URL OK
https://sociopatterns.org/datasets/high-school-contact-and-friendship-networks/
Upstream license
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
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
proximity 329 188,508 1145.95 879.50 40.12 88.29 0.47 0.61 4 0.99 Undirected Unipartite id class gender time 200 KiB 575 KiB 529 KiB 531 KiB
diaries 329 502 1.53 4.53 6.54 381.91 0.13 0.42 12 0.36 Directed Unipartite id class gender weight 8 KiB 12 KiB 11 KiB 9 KiB
survey 329 668 2.03 6.05 8.59 35.34 0.37 0.50 10 0.39 Directed Unipartite id class gender 8 KiB 11 KiB 11 KiB 9 KiB
facebook 329 1,437 8.74 11.34 23.38 18.21 0.02 0.52 5 0.47 Undirected Unipartite id class gender 9 KiB 13 KiB 13 KiB 11 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.