Opsahl UC Social Network

Directed temporal multigraph of private messages sent on an online social network at UC Irvine. Each edge represents a message from one user to another; multiple messages between the same pair create multi-edges. No self-loops.

npx keepset fetch konect-opsahl-ucsocial

Nodes: 1,899
Edges: 59,835
Size: 317.3 KiB

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Overview

Id	`konect-opsahl-ucsocial`
Namespace	`konect`
Aliases	`opsahl-ucsocial`
Category	`graph/v1`
Kind	graph
Domain	Communication network
Tags	unweighted
Licence	not recorded by the source
Catalogue	`keepset` 1.33.0

Sources and provenance

#	URL	Status	Retrieved	Read by recipe	Pinned snapshot	SHA-256
0	http://konect.cc/files/download.tsv.opsahl-ucsocial.tar.bz2	live	2026-04-20	yes	20261020230556raw	`799d490bec42`

Citations

Panzarasa, Pietro, Opsahl, Tore, Carley, Kathleen M. (2009). Patterns and dynamics of users' behavior and interaction: Network analysis of an online community. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 60(5), 911-932.

Recipe

Source	#0
Archive	tar.bz2
Member	matching `(?:[^/]+/)?out\.[^/]+`
Parser format	`"konect"`
Parser encoding	`"utf-8"`
Parser weighted	`false`
Parser timestamped	`true`

Crosswalk

keepset/timestamped to graph/v1, as a crossmap crosswalk.

Rule	From	To	Direction
move	`meta`	`meta`	both
move	`nodes[].id`	`nodes[].id`	both
move	`edges[].source`	`edges[].source`	both
move	`edges[].target`	`edges[].target`	both
move	`edges[].timestamp`	`edges[].timestamp`	both

Expected counts

Edges	59,835
Nodes	1,899

Properties

Directed	yes
Download bytes	317.3 KiB
Heterogeneous	no
Multigraph	yes
Raw bytes	0 B
Self loops	no
Weighted	no