YouTube Social Network v1
A multi-dimensional YouTube network crawled in December 2008 at Arizona State University (Tang & Liu), from the ASU Social Computing Data Repository: 15,088 active users and five weighted, undirected interaction layers with 13,628,895 edges in all. The layers are contacts (76,765), shared friends (1,940,806), shared subscriptions (5,574,249), shared subscribers (2,239,440) and shared favourite videos (3,797,635); each pair is listed once. Suitable for multi-layer network analysis and community detection.
Cite this dataset at
youtube-v1.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 15,088 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
youtube-v1- Authors
- Tang, Lei; Wang, Xufei; Liu, Huan; Zafarani, Reza
- Year
- 2009
- Source paper
- Uncovering Groups via Heterogeneous Interaction Analysis
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1109/icdm.2009.20
- License
- Academic Use (see Syracuse Data Lab terms) (LicenseRef-Research-Only)
- Records
- 15,088
- Nodes
- 15,088
- Edges
- 13,628,895
- Nodes are
- user
- Edges are
- interaction
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2007-2008 (2000s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://datasets.syr.edu link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 162.8 MB across 7 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
Uncoverning Groups via Heterogeneous Interaction Analysis
Lei Tang, Xufei Wang, Huan Liu
Journal Article · 2009 Ninth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining · 2009
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M. Chau, J. Xu · MIS Q. · 2012 · cited 369× - A classification for community discovery methods in complex networks
M. Coscia, F. Giannotti et al. · Statistical analysis and data mining · 2011 · cited 369× - Community detection via heterogeneous interaction analysis
Lei Tang, Xufei Wang et al. · Data mining and knowledge discovery · 2012 · cited 224×
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- Data Mining in Social Media
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Darcy A. Davis, Ryan N. Lichtenwalter et al. · International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining · 2011 · cited 147× - Community-Based Recommendations: a Solution to the Cold Start Problem
Shaghayegh Sherry Sahebi, William W. Cohen · 2011 · cited 133×
Citation data from Semantic Scholar, retrieved 2026-10-22.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@inproceedings{Tang_2009,
title = {Uncovering Groups via Heterogeneous Interaction Analysis},
doi = {10.1109/icdm.2009.20},
booktitle = {2009 Ninth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining},
publisher = {IEEE},
author = {Tang, Lei and Wang, Xufei and Liu, Huan},
year = {2009},
month = Dec,
pages = {503--512}
}
@misc{Zafarani_2009_asu,
title = {Social Computing Data Repository at {ASU}},
author = {Zafarani, Reza and Liu, Huan},
year = {2009},
howpublished = {\url{http://socialcomputing.asu.edu}},
note = {Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University, School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Tang, L., Wang, X., Liu, H., & Zafarani, R. (2009). YouTube Social Network v1 [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1109/icdm.2009.20
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Tang, Lei, et al. YouTube Social Network v1. 2009, doi.org/10.1109/icdm.2009.20.