foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012)
Two bipartite networks of users and restaurant locations in New York City on Foursquare, from 24 October 2011 to 20 February 2012. In one network, an edge denotes a check-in event of a user at a restaurant. In the other, an edge exists if a user left a tip/comment on a restaurant. Metadata include comments.
This network has 6410 nodes and 10377 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata
Woke up from a dream with a thought about dark patterns and LLMs.
If LLMs (as a service) could be normalized and integrated into everything, as is currently in progress, the next step would be to charge tokens to pay for the interactions. After all, it's not really free. That's just the normal progression. Introduce the tech, get people hooked, then make them pay.
Great, now imagine this future state. Every interaction with a computer ends up mediated through a stochastic parrot. Congratulations, everything now has micro-transactions on steroids. Not only does everything you do with tech have micro-transactions, but every interaction with technology is gambling.
I found this statue of Guanyin at the #Rijksmuseum in #Amsterdam oddly calming.
«Here the Buddhist deity Guanyin, saviour of people in peril, is represented meditating on a rock. According to legend, he was once found in this position, meditating on the reflection of the moon in water, a symbol of ill…
Apple Music introduces Transparency Tags, a metadata system for music distributors and labels to disclose AI-generated creative elements like artwork or lyrics (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusinesswor…
"Offene Metadaten und datenanalytische Forschungsservices in der Open-Access-Transformation: Eine Analyse zu Regelungen in Open-Access-Transformationsverträgen deutscher Einrichtungen und ihrer Konsortien" von Sophia Dörner: https://doi.org/10.1515/bfp-2025-0035
foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012)
Two bipartite networks of users and restaurant locations in New York City on Foursquare, from 24 October 2011 to 20 February 2012. In one network, an edge denotes a check-in event of a user at a restaurant. In the other, an edge exists if a user left a tip/comment on a restaurant. Metadata include comments.
This network has 4936 nodes and 27149 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata
euroroad: Euroroad network (2011)
A network of international "E-roads," mostly in Europe. Vertices represent cities and edges represents roads. Metadata includes names of cities.
This network has 1174 nodes and 1417 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/euroroa…
polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…
zebras: Zebras (2002)
Social interactions among a group of wild Grevy's zebras (Equus grevyi), observed in Mpala Ranch in Kenya in 2002. Metadata (UCINET version) provides animal sex and lactation status.
This network has 27 nodes and 111 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net…
zebras: Zebras (2002)
Social interactions among a group of wild Grevy's zebras (Equus grevyi), observed in Mpala Ranch in Kenya in 2002. Metadata (UCINET version) provides animal sex and lactation status.
This network has 27 nodes and 111 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net…