[twitter-dev] Academic data release

2010-02-24 Thread Pete Warden
I'm looking into releasing a data set based on information pulled from the Twitter API. It would be a free release limited to academic researchers, an anonymized version of the network connections of several million users with public profiles. What I'm hoping to release is something like this:

Re: [twitter-dev] Academic data release

2010-02-24 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Quoting Pete Warden p...@petewarden.com: I'm looking into releasing a data set based on information pulled from the Twitter API. It would be a free release limited to academic researchers, an anonymized version of the network connections of several million users with public profiles. What I'm

Re: [twitter-dev] Academic data release

2010-02-24 Thread John Kalucki
It's possible, if not likely, that releasing this data would be against one or more Service Terms. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Infrastructure, Twitter Inc. On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Pete Warden p...@petewarden.com wrote: I'm looking into releasing a data set based on

Re: [twitter-dev] Academic data release

2010-02-24 Thread Pete Warden
The value lies in the particular properties of a real social graph, as opposed to an artificially generated one. The sort of questions it's useful for are primarily social rather than mathematical. For a summary of some existing research on similar data sets, see: