Awesome Public Datasets – Social Networks

Website: https://github.com/awesomedata/apd-core/tree/master/core/SocialNetworks
Category: Themed directories
Tags: datasets, social, awesome-lists
Brand: awesomedata

Overview

Awesome Public Datasets – Social Networks is a curated, themed subset of the broader Awesome Public Datasets project. It focuses specifically on high-quality, publicly available social network datasets (such as Twitter scrapes, Enron email data, and social graphs from platforms like Facebook), organized in an "awesome-style" directory format.

Each dataset entry is accompanied by structured metadata files to make discovery, comparison, and reuse easier for researchers, developers, and data practitioners.

Features

• Themed directory for social network data
  Focuses exclusively on datasets related to social networks and communication graphs (e.g., Twitter, email networks, social graphs).

• Curated subset of Awesome Public Datasets
  Drawn from the larger Awesome Public Datasets ecosystem, ensuring a baseline of quality and relevance.

• Structured metadata for each dataset
  Each dataset entry includes metadata files in a consistent format, simplifying:

  • Discovery and search
  • Comparison across datasets
  • Integration with other tools in the awesome ecosystem

• Covers multiple social platforms and network types
  Examples mentioned include:

  • Twitter scrapes
  • Enron email corpus
  • Facebook-like social graphs

• Ecosystem-friendly design
  Organized to work well with other awesome-style lists and tooling, enabling reuse and cross-linking within the broader awesome data ecosystem.

• Open and publicly accessible
  Catalogs high-quality datasets that are publicly available, suitable for research, experimentation, and educational purposes (subject to each dataset’s own license/terms).

Use Cases

• Finding social network datasets for academic research or publications
• Prototyping graph algorithms, network analysis, and recommendation systems
• Building tutorials or educational materials on social network analysis
• Benchmarking tools for graph databases, community detection, or influence modeling

Pricing

• Not a commercial product; the directory itself is freely accessible on GitHub.
• Individual datasets may have their own licenses or usage restrictions, which need to be checked per dataset.

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