BlogCatalog dataset

<b>Abstract</b>: BlogCatalog is the social blog directory which manages the bloggers and their blogs.<br><b>Number of Nodes:</b>10,312<b>Number of Edges:</b>333,983<b>Missing Values?</b>no<br><b>Source:</b>Nitin Agarwal+, Xufei Wang*, Huan Liu*<br><br>+ Department of Information Science, University of Arkansas at Little Rock. E-mail:[e-mail]<br><br>* School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University. E-mail: [e-mail], [e-mail]<br><b>Data Set Information:</b>2 files are included:<br><br>1. nodes.csv<br>-- it's the file of all the users. This file works as a dictionary of all the users in this data set. It's useful for fast reference. It contains all the node ids used in the dataset.<br><br>2. edges.csv<br>-- this is the friendship network among the bloggers. The blogger's friends are represented using edges. Here is an example.<br><br>1,2<br><br>This means blogger with id "1" is friend with blogger id "2".<br><b>Attribute Information:</b>This is the data set crawled on July, 2009 from BlogCatalog ( http://www.blogcatalog.com ). BlogCatalog is a social blog directory website. This contains the friendship network crawled. For easier understanding, all the contents are organized in CSV file format.<br><br>-. Basic statistics<br><br>Number of bloggers : 88,784<br><br>Number of friendship pairs: 4,186,390<br><b>Relevant Papers:</b><b><br></b>Nitin Agarwal and Huan Liu. ”Modeling and Data Mining in Blogosphere”, Synthesis Lectures on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery #1, Morgan &amp; Claypool Publishers, Robert Grossman (Editor), August 2009. ISBN: 9781598299083 (paperback) ISBN: 9781598299090 (ebook) Nitin Agarwal, Magdiel Galan, Huan Liu, and Shankar Subramanya. WisColl: Collective Wisdom based Blog Clustering. Journal of Information Science, 180(1): 39-61, January, 2010. Nitin Agarwal, Huan Liu, Sudheendra Murthy, Arunabha Sen, and Xufei Wang. A Social Identity Approach to Identify Familiar Strangers in a Social Network. In Proceedings of the Third International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM09), pp. 2 - 9, May 17-20, 2009. San Jose, California. Nitin Agarwal, Huan Liu, Sudheendra Murthy, Arunabha Sen, and Xufei Wang. "A Social Identity Approach to Identify Familiar Strangers in a Social Network", 3rd International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM09), pp. 2 - 9, May 17-20, 2009. San Jose, California.<br>