odiazca / medium-dataset

An anonymized dataset of 1+ million users in the Medium social network

An anonymized dataset of 1+ million users in the Medium social network

Publication:
F. Li, Y. Chen, R. Xie, F. Ben Abdesslem and A. Lindgren, "Understanding Service Integration of Online Social Networks: A Data-Driven Study," in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, 2018.
(BibTeX citation below)

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Description

This dataset covers 1,075,983 users in Medium, including social graph and profile/activity data for each user. Usernames are anonymized with numerical IDs. This dataset was collected during August 2016.

Files

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• nodes.txt: Node IDs (0 ~ 1,075,982) used to anonymize the dataset.
  Each line in nodes.txt is an ID for a user.

• edges.txt: Edge list (30,026,896 edges) of the directed social graph.
  Each line in edges.txt is an directed edge. For example, "0 1" means user 0 is following user 1 in Medium.

• user_data.csv: Profile/activity data, cross-site linking options and linked Twitter profile data for each user.
  Each row in user_data.csv is the data of a user. (Several users' data are missing due to errors in crawling process)
  Descriptions for each column in user_data.csv:

  • ID: User's anonymized ID.
  • createdAt: Unix timestamp of the user's registration time.
  • followers: Number of followers.
  • following: Number of followings.
  • bio: 1 if the user has a biography, 0 otherwise.
  • posts: Number of posts (articles).
  • responses: Number of responses.
  • recommends: Number of recommends (this function has been replaced by the "claps" function).
  • highlights: Number of highlights.
  • facebook: The cross-site linking option to the user's Facebook account. 1 if the user has enabled it, 0 otherwise.
  • twitter: The cross-site linking option to the user's Twitter account. 1 if the user has enabled it, 0 otherwise.
  • twitter_followers: Number of followers in the user's linked Twitter account.
  • twitter_followings: Number of followings in the user's linked Twitter account.
  • twitter_bio: 1 if the user has a biography in the linked Twitter account, 0 otherwise.
  • twitter_tweets: Number of tweets in the user's linked Twitter account.
  • twitter_likes: Number of likes in the user's linked Twitter account.
  • twitter_lists: Number of lists in the user's linked Twitter account.

BibTeX

@INPROCEEDINGS{Li_PerFoT18, 
author={Fei Li and Yang Chen and Rong Xie and Fehmi Ben Abdesslem and Anders Lindgren}, 
booktitle={2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)}, 
title={Understanding Service Integration of Online Social Networks: A Data-Driven Study}, 
year={2018},
}