Public WhatsApp groups from the Brazilian online repositories

This repository contains two gzip files with public WhatsApp groups collected from two Brazilian repositories, they are: Grupos de Zap - db_grupos_whats.json.gz Grupo de Whats - db_grupos_zap.json.gz The groups were collected on 01/2022. The files contain five properties: title: group title description: description of the group informed by the administrator created_date: creation date when the group was registered in the repository num_vizualization: times the group was seen on the site - only for the zap groups repository category: group category If you use this dataset cite your paper, please: "Click Here to Join": A Large-Scale Analysis of Topics Discussed by Brazilian Public Groups on WhatsApp Daniel Kansaon, Philipe Melo, and Fabrício Benevenuto. 2022. “Click Here to Join”: A Large-Scale Analysis of Topics Discussed by Brazilian Public Groups on WhatsApp. In Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and Web (WebMedia ’22), November 7–11, 2022, Curitiba, Brazil. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 11 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3539637.3557056

本仓库收录两份gzip压缩格式文件，均为从两个巴西公开仓库采集的公开WhatsApp群组数据集，具体文件为："Grupos de Zap - db_grupos_whats.json.gz"与"Grupo de Whats - db_grupos_zap.json.gz"。所有群组的采集工作均完成于2022年1月。

上述数据文件包含五类字段：
1. `title`：群组标题
2. `description`：群组管理员所提供的群组描述信息
3. `created_date`：该群组在本仓库中登记的创建日期
4. `num_visualization`（原文存在拼写疏漏，应为`num_visualizations`）：该群组在站点的被浏览次数——该字段仅适用于其中一个zap groups仓库的数据集
5. `category`：群组分类

若您使用本数据集，请引用如下论文：
"Click Here to Join": A Large-Scale Analysis of Topics Discussed by Brazilian Public Groups on WhatsApp
Daniel Kansaon、Philipe Melo 与 Fabrício Benevenuto. 2022. "Click Here to Join": A Large-Scale Analysis of Topics Discussed by Brazilian Public Groups on WhatsApp. 见：巴西多媒体与网络研讨会（WebMedia ’22），2022年11月7日至11日，巴西库里提巴。ACM，美国纽约州纽约市，共11页。DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3539637.3557056