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Social Network: Reddit Hyperlink Network

Dataset information

The hyperlink network represents the directed connections between two subreddits (a subreddit is a community on Reddit). We also provide subreddit embeddings. The network is extracted from publicly available Reddit data of 2.5 years from Jan 2014 to April 2017.

Subreddit Hyperlink Network: the subreddit-to-subreddit hyperlink network is extracted from the posts that create hyperlinks from one subreddit to another. We say a hyperlink originates from a post in the source community and links to a post in the target community. Each hyperlink is annotated with three properties: the timestamp, the sentiment of the source community post towards the target community post, and the text property vector of the source post. The network is directed, signed, temporal, and attributed.

Note that each post has a title and a body. The hyperlink can be present in either the title of the post or in the body. Therefore, we provide one network file for each.

Subreddit Embeddings: We have also provided embedding vectors representing each subreddit. These can be found in this dataset link: subreddit embedding dataset. Please note that some subreddit embeddings could not be generated, so this file has 51,278 embeddings.

Project website: These files have been generated as part of the research project on how subreddits attack one another. The details of the project can be found here.


Dataset statistics
Number of nodes (subreddits) 55,863
Number of edges (hyperlink between subreddits) 858,490
Edge weights (label of hyperlink) -1 or +1
Edge attributes Text property vectors
Timespan Jan 2014 - April 2017

Source (citation)

The following BibTeX citation can be used: 
@inproceedings{kumar2018community,
  title={Community interaction and conflict on the web},
  author={Kumar, Srijan and Hamilton, William L and Leskovec, Jure and Jurafsky, Dan},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2018 World Wide Web Conference on World Wide Web},
  pages={933--943},
  year={2018},
  organization={International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee}
}

Files

File Description
soc-redditHyperlinks-body.tsv Network of subreddit-to-subreddit hyperlinks extracted from hyperlinks in the body of the post.
soc-redditHyperlinks-title.tsv Network of subreddit-to-subreddit hyperlinks extracted from hyperlinks in the title of the post.

Data format

The data file is in tab separated format.
SOURCE_SUBREDDIT tab TARGET_SUBREDDIT tab POST_ID tab TIMESTAMP tab POST_LABEL tab POST_PROPERTIES leagueoflegends teamredditteams 1u4nrps 2013-12-31 16:39:58 1 345.0,298.0,0.75652173913,0.0173913043478,0.0869565217391,0.150724637681,0.0753623188406,57.0,53.0,10.0,4.78947368421,15.0,0.315789473684,1.0,1.0,345.0,57.0,35.5778947368,0.073,0.08,0.1748,0.3448275862068966,0.05172413793103448,0.034482758620689655,0.0,0.034482758620689655,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.017241379310344827,0.05172413793103448,0.10344827586206896,0.05172413793103448,0.0,0.10344827586206896,0.0,0.034482758620689655,0.034482758620689655,0.06896551724137931,0.017241379310344827,0.034482758620689655,0.0,0.0,0.10344827586206896,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.05172413793103448,0.017241379310344827,0.034482758620689655,0.0,0.0,0.017241379310344827,0.1896551724137931,0.034482758620689655,0.0,0.034482758620689655,0.034482758620689655,0.0,0.0,0.06896551724137931,0.05172413793103448,0.034482758620689655,0.034482758620689655,0.0,0.0,0.017241379310344827,0.017241379310344827,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.06896551724137931,0.017241379310344827,0.05172413793103448,0.0,0.05172413793103448,0.06896551724137931,0.034482758620689655,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0 theredlion soccer 1u4qkd 2013-12-31 18:18:37 -1 101.0,98.0,0.742574257426,0.019801980198,0.049504950495,0.0594059405941,0.178217821782,14.0,14.0,2.0,5.71428571429,1.0,0.0714285714286,2.0,0.0,49.5,7.0,16.0492857143,0.472,0.0,0.5538,0.06666666666666667,0.06666666666666667,0.06666666666666667,0.06666666666666667,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.06666666666666667,0.0,0.0,0.06666666666666667,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.13333333333333333,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.06666666666666667,0.0,0.0,0.06666666666666667,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.06666666666666667,0.06666666666666667,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.06666666666666667,0.0,0.06666666666666667,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0 inlandempire bikela 1u4qlzs 2014-01-01 14:54:35 1 85.0,85.0,0.752941176471,0.0235294117647,0.0823529411765,0.0117647058824,0.211764705882,10.0,10.0,2.0,7.2,0.0,0.0,1.0,0.0,85.0,10.0,23.605,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.09090909090909091,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.09090909090909091,0.09090909090909091,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.09090909090909091,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0

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