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- 462 creator eric-horvitz.
- 462 creator jure-leskovec.
- 462 type InProceedings.
- 462 label "Planetary-Scale Views on a Large Instant-Messaging Network".
- 462 sameAs 462.
- 462 abstract "We present a study of anonymized data representing high-level communication activities within the Microsoft Messenger instant-messaging network. We analyze properties of the network defined by user interactions and demographics, as reported and derived from one month of data collected in June 2006. The compressed dataset occupies 4.5 terabytes, composed from 1 billion conversations per day (150 gigabytes) collected over one month of logging. The dataset contains more than 30 billion conversations among 240 million people. The network is the largest social network analyzed to date. We analyze high-level characteristics and patterns that emerge from the collective dynamics of large numbers of people, rather than the actions and characteristics of individuals. Analyses center on numbers and durations of conversations; the content of communications was neither available nor pursued. From the data, we construct a communication graph with 190 million nodes and 1.3 billion undirected edges. We find that the graph is well connected, with an effective diameter of 7.8, and is highly clustered, with a clustering coefficient that decays slowly with exponent $-0.4$. We also find strong influences of homophily in activities, where people with similar characteristics overall tend to communicate more with one another, with the exception of gender, where we find cross-gender conversations are both more frequent and of longer duration than conversations with the same gender.".
- 462 hasAuthorList authorList.
- 462 hasTopic World_Wide_Web.
- 462 isPartOf proceedings.
- 462 keyword "communication networks".
- 462 keyword "instant messaging".
- 462 keyword "large data".
- 462 keyword "social networks".
- 462 keyword "user demographics".
- 462 title "Planetary-Scale Views on a Large Instant-Messaging Network".