Twitter Multiple Network Views — Irish politics (UCD)
The politics-ie dataset of the multi-view Twitter data of Derek Greene and Pádraig Cunningham (2013): 348 Twitter accounts, collected in 2012 from curated Twitter lists. Irish politicians and political organisations, assigned to seven disjoint ground-truth groups according to their affiliation. The accounts are described by nine views, given upstream as sparse matrices: six relation views between the accounts (who follows whom: 16,856 links; mentions: 6,318 account pairs; retweets: 3,019 pairs; each relation is listed in both directions, as a pair of views) and three feature views (words from the accounts' tweets: 350,175 entries over 14,377 words; Twitter lists the accounts appear on: 15,225 entries over 1,047 lists; merged list names: 25,651 entries over 1,051 words). The package also holds the 7 ground-truth communities (348 memberships). Accounts are identified by their Twitter IDs only; the upstream archive contains no tweets and no names.
Cite this dataset at
ucd-multiview-politicsie.echo.directory
Analytics
Node size is centrality, colour is community. Hover a node for details; click one to isolate its community.
Record
- Catalog key
ucd-multiview-politicsie- Authors
- Greene, Derek; Cunningham, Pádraig
- Year
- 2013
- Source paper
- Producing a Unified Graph Representation from Multiple Social Network Views
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1145/2464464.2464471
- License
- Non-commercial research use (UCD Machine Learning Group) (LicenseRef-Research-Only)
- Records
- 348
- Nodes
- 348
- Edges
- 18,524 (directed)
- Nodes are
- user
- Edges are
- follows / mentions / retweets (union, with per-view counts)
- Attributes
- nodes have attributes; edges have attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2012 (2010s)
- Tasks
- Node classification (multi-class;
community_label) inferred, Community detection (ground truth;community_label) inferred
From the graph: link prediction - Region
- Ireland · Europe (inferred: named in the description)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- http://mlg.ucd.ie/aggregation/ link checked
- Original files as received
- The source files, unconverted, kept for reference: mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-21, 9.4 MB across 16 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json. For use, start with the data package below.
- Data package
- Version 1.0.0 of this dataset as an ECHO Data Package: nodes (348 rows), edges (52,386 rows), items (16,475 rows), interactions (391,051 rows), communities (7 rows), memberships (348 rows).
- Structure
- Directed network, Weighted network, Multilayer (several networks)
Citations
Producing a unified graph representation from multiple social network views
Derek Greene, P. Cunningham
Journal Article · Web Science Conference · 2013
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Citation data from Semantic Scholar, retrieved 2026-10-21.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@inproceedings{greene2013producing,
title = {Producing a Unified Graph Representation from Multiple Social Network Views},
author = {Greene, Derek and Cunningham, P{\'a}draig},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci)},
pages = {118--121},
year = {2013},
doi = {10.1145/2464464.2464471}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Greene, D., & Cunningham, P. (2013). Twitter Multiple Network Views — Irish politics (UCD) [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1145/2464464.2464471
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Greene, Derek, and Pádraig Cunningham. Twitter Multiple Network Views — Irish politics (UCD). 2013, doi.org/10.1145/2464464.2464471.