Galatanet

Galatanet datasets 2009-2010 by Jean-Michel Balasque ([e-mail]) &amp; Vincent Labatut<br>([e-mail])<br>http://www.gsu.edu.tr This dataset is open data: you can redistribute it and/or use<br>it under the terms of the Creative Commons Zero license (see license.txt). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This project contains the datasets relative to the Galatanet survey, conducted in 2009 and<br>2010 at the Galatasaray University in Istanbul (Turkey). The goal of this survey was to<br>retrieve information regarding the social relationships between students, their feeling<br>regarding the university in general, and their purchase behavior. The survey was conducted<br>during two phases: the first one in 2009 and the second in 2010. For the moment, only the<br>data corresponding to the first phase are available here, because those from the second<br>phase will be used in some publication to come. The dataset includes two kinds of data. First, the answers to most of the questions are<br>contained in a large table, available under both CSV and MS Excel formats. An explicative<br>file allows understanding the meaning of each field appearing in the table. Note the<br>survey form is also contained in the archive, for reference (it is in french and turkish<br>only, though). Second, the social network of students is available under both Pajek and<br>Graphml formats. having both individual (nodal attributes) and relational (links)<br>information in the same dataset is, to our knowledge, rare and difficult to find in public<br>sources, and this makes (to our opinion) this dataset interesting and valuable. All data are completely anonymous: students' names have been replaced by random numbers.<br>Note the survey is not exactly the same between the two phases: some small adjustments<br>were applied thanks to the feedback from the first phase (but the datasets have been<br>normalized since then). Also, the electronic form was very much improved for the second<br>phase, which explains why the answers are much more complete than in the first phase. If you use this data, please cite the following article: Labatut, V. &amp; Balasque, J.-M.<br>(2010). Business-oriented Analysis of a Social Network of University Students. In:<br>International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining, 25-32. Odense,<br>DK : IEEE. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5562794 Note the data was used in other publications, too:<br>* An extended version of the original article: Labatut, V. &amp; Balasque, J.-M. (2013).<br>Informative Value of Individual and Relational Data Compared Through Business-Oriented<br>Community Detection. Özyer, T.; Rokne, J.; Wagner, G. &amp; Reuser, A. H. (Eds.), The<br>Influence of Technology on Social Network Analysis and Mining, Springer, 2013, chap.6,<br>303-330. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-7091-1346-2_13<br>* A more didactic article using some of these data just for illustration purposes:<br>Labatut, V. &amp; Balasque, J.-M. (2012). Detection and Interpretation of Communities in<br>Complex Networks: Methods and Practical Application. Abraham, A. &amp; Hassanien, A.-E.<br>(Eds.), Computational Social Networks: Tools, Perspectives and Applications, Springer,<br>chap.4, 81-113. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4471-4048-1_4