Galatanet

Galatanet datasets

2009-2010 by Jean-Michel Balasque ([e-mail]) & Vincent Labatut
([e-mail])
http://www.gsu.edu.tr

This dataset is open data: you can redistribute it and/or use
it under the terms of the Creative Commons Zero license (see license.txt).

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This project contains the datasets relative to the Galatanet survey, conducted in 2009 and
2010 at the Galatasaray University in Istanbul (Turkey). The goal of this survey was to
retrieve information regarding the social relationships between students, their feeling
regarding the university in general, and their purchase behavior. The survey was conducted
during two phases: the first one in 2009 and the second in 2010. For the moment, only the
data corresponding to the first phase are available here, because those from the second
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
contained in a large table, available under both CSV and MS Excel formats. An explicative
file allows understanding the meaning of each field appearing in the table. Note the
survey form is also contained in the archive, for reference (it is in french and turkish
only, though). Second, the social network of students is available under both Pajek and
Graphml formats. having both individual (nodal attributes) and relational (links)
information in the same dataset is, to our knowledge, rare and difficult to find in public
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All data are completely anonymous: students' names have been replaced by random numbers.
Note the survey is not exactly the same between the two phases: some small adjustments
were applied thanks to the feedback from the first phase (but the datasets have been
normalized since then). Also, the electronic form was very much improved for the second
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. & Balasque, J.-M.
(2010). Business-oriented Analysis of a Social Network of University Students. In:
International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining, 25-32. Odense,
DK : IEEE. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5562794

Note the data was used in other publications, too:
* An extended version of the original article: Labatut, V. & Balasque, J.-M. (2013).
Informative Value of Individual and Relational Data Compared Through Business-Oriented
Community Detection. Özyer, T.; Rokne, J.; Wagner, G. & Reuser, A. H. (Eds.), The
Influence of Technology on Social Network Analysis and Mining, Springer, 2013, chap.6,
303-330. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-7091-1346-2_13
* A more didactic article using some of these data just for illustration purposes:
Labatut, V. & Balasque, J.-M. (2012). Detection and Interpretation of Communities in
Complex Networks: Methods and Practical Application. Abraham, A. & Hassanien, A.-E.
(Eds.), Computational Social Networks: Tools, Perspectives and Applications, Springer,
chap.4, 81-113. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4471-4048-1_4