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flixster: Flixster friendship network (2009)
A network of friendships among users of Flixster, an online social movie website that allows users to share movie ratings and to connect each other. Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends.
This network has 2523386 nodes and 7918801 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
Bad year for bicycling at the California State Capitol. Caltrans quick-build bill died, among others.
https://www.calbike.org/bike-friendly-bills-bite-the-dust/
YouTube unveils new livestreaming features, including letting creators transition between public and members-only streams, and ads that run next to the stream (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/16/yout
O autor leva anos a escrever a coisa, eu levo meses a traduzi-la, e estes gajos leem-na em 50 horas... *sigh*
https://front-end.social/@DodoTheDev/115210727913713342
Longtime Cowboys rival hypes Dak Prescott as NFL MVP front-runner https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/longtime-dallas-cowboys-rival-hypes-dak-prescott-nfl-mvp-front-runner
Does spatialized audio enhance the creation of mental representations? Spoiler: No (for their SnapStick-based setup) https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2025.1660373/full "seven blind individuals and se…
ugandan_village: Ugandan village networks (2013)
Complete friendship and health advice social networks among households in 17 rural villages bordering Lake Victoria in Mayuge District, Uganda in 2013. Nodes are households and edges represent either a close friendship or a trusted health advisor connection, obtained via a name generator questionnaire.
This network has 120 nodes and 295 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Multilayer