Social Computing Data Repository - Basic Information
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Dataset Name: Friendster
Abstract: Friendster is a social networking website.The service allows users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts.
Number of Nodes: 100,199
Number of Edges: 14,067,887
Missing Values: No

Data Set Information:
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[I]. Brief description
Friendster is a social networking website.The service allows users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts. 
This is the data set crawled by Stephen Booher (stephen.booher@asu.edu) on Nov, 2010 from Friendster.  
This contains the friendship network crawled. For easier understanding, all the contents are organized in CSV file format.

[II]. Basic statistics
Number of users : 100,199
Number of friendship pairs: 14,067,887

[III]. The data format

2 files are included:

1. nodes.csv
-- it's the file of all the users. This file works as a dictionary of all the users in this data set. It's useful for fast reference. It contains
all the node ids used in the dataset

2. edges.csv
-- this is the friendship network among the users. The users's friends are represented using edges. Here is an example. 

1,2

This means user with id "1" is friend with user id "2".