YouTube (v2) Friendship Network Analyzed
A YouTube (friendship network) dataset of 1,138,499 users and 2,990,443 friendship edges, collected by Tang & Liu via YouTube crawl (2009). Each record contains user-user friendship edges, group memberships (47 groups), and user IDs. The dataset is notable for its classic social network dataset with explicit group memberships, used as a benchmark for latent social dimensions and collective behavior learning. Intended for research into social network analysis, community detection, group membership prediction, and relational learning in social media.
