Italian Covid-19 Retweet Network (2020-2022)

Description

This repository contains directed retweet interactions between anonymized Twitter (now X) users.

Data is stored in five csv files, each one relating to a different phase of the pandemic in Italy.

early covid (01/01/2020 – 08/03/2020): from Covid’s first tracing in Wuhan,China, up to the first lockdown in Italy;

pre vaccine (09/03/2020 – 31/10/2020): from the first Italian lockdown to the start of the vaccination campaign;

early vaccine (01/11/2020 – 16/04/2021): the first months of the vaccination campaign;

vaccine drive (17/04/2021 - 31/07/2021): the main phase of intensive vaccination;

late vaccine (01/08/2021 – 31/12/2021): phase in which a significant portionof the Italian population was fully vaccinated;

CSV files are structured as follows: 

from,to,weight

AcknowledgementsThis work is supported by (i) the European Union – Horizon 2020 Program under the scheme “INFRAIA-01-2018-2019 – Integrating Activities for Advanced Communities”, Grant Agreement n.871042, ”SoBigData++: European Integrated Infrastructure for Social Mining and Big Data Analytics” (http://www.sobigdata.eu); (ii) SoBigData.it which receives funding from the European Union –NextGenerationEU – National Recovery and Resilience Plan (Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza, PNRR) – Project: ”SoBigData.it – Strengthening the Italian RI for Social Mining and Big Data Analytics” – Prot. IR0000013 – Avviso n. 3264 del 28/12/2021; (iii) EU NextGenerationEU programme under the funding schemes PNRR-PE-AI FAIR (Future Artificial Intelligence Research).