Gowalla
Dataset information
Gowalla is a location-based social networking website where users share their locations by checking-in. The friendship network is undirected and was collected using their public API, and consists of 196,591 nodes and 950,327 edges. We have collected a total of 6,442,890 check-ins of these users over the period of Feb. 2009 - Oct. 2010.
| Dataset statistics | |
|---|---|
| Nodes | 196,591 |
| Edges | 950,327 |
| Check-ins | 6,442,890 |
Source (citation)
- E. Cho, S. A. Myers, J. Leskovec. Friendship and Mobility: Friendship and Mobility: User Movement in Location-Based Social Networks ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2011.
Files
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| loc-gowalla_edges.txt.gz | Friendship network of Gowalla users |
| loc-gowalla_totalCheckins.txt.gz | Time and location information of check-ins made by users |
Example of check-in information
[user] [check-in time] [latitude] [longitude] [location id]
196514 2010-07-24T13:45:06Z 53.3648119 -2.2723465833 145064
196514 2010-07-24T13:44:58Z 53.360511233 -2.276369017 1275991
196514 2010-07-24T13:44:46Z 53.3653895945 -2.2754087046 376497
196514 2010-07-24T13:44:38Z 53.3663709833 -2.2700764333 98503
196514 2010-07-24T13:44:26Z 53.3674087524 -2.2783813477 1043431
196514 2010-07-24T13:44:08Z 53.3675663377 -2.278631763 881734
196514 2010-07-24T13:43:18Z 53.3679640626 -2.2792943689 207763
196514 2010-07-24T13:41:10Z 53.364905 -2.270824 1042822