Dataset Containing Online Communities Metadata
Sets of statistics derived from posts to two sets of online forums, each serving an ideological community. The posts were grouped into six-month time slices; four consecutive time slices were analysed for Community A, and one time slice for Community B. The quantities measured relate to the textual content of users' posts, their level of participation in threads, and the network of other users to whom they are connected by replies and quoting. The data were collected in 2011-2012 as part of an internal project.
Cite this dataset as:
Joinson, A.,
Davidson, B.,
2019.
Dataset Containing Online Communities Metadata.
Bath: University of Bath Research Data Archive.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.15125/BATH-00558.
Export
Data
Communities_Data.zip
application/zip (273kB)
Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0
Data (numerical) from two communities. Information contained in the readme.docx file on variables.
Contributors
University of Bath
Rights Holder
Coverage
Collection date(s):
From 2011 to 2012
Documentation
Data collection method:
The data were collected by screen-scraping publicly visible online community forum posts. Further details are available in the README file.
Data processing and preparation activities:
Last two years (Community A) and six months (Community B) taken from SQL database of full scrape. Content removed. Sub-forum names obfuscated. User IDs MD5 encoded.
Technical details and requirements:
The data are encoded as comma-separated value files.
Templates
README.docx
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document (21kB)
Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0
Funders
Government Communications Planning Directorate
Becoming a Member of an Online Group
Publication details
Publication date: 22 May 2019
by: University of Bath
Version: 1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15125/BATH-00558
URL for this record: https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/id/eprint/558
Related papers and books
Davidson, B. I., Jones, S. L., Joinson, A. N., and Hinds, J., 2019. The evolution of online ideological communities. PLOS ONE, 14(5), e0216932. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216932.
Contact information
Please contact the Research Data Service in the first instance for all matters concerning this item.
Contact person: Adam Joinson
Faculties and Schools
School of Management
School of Management
Information, Decisions & Operations
Research Centres & Institutes
Centre for Business, Organisations and Society (CBOS)
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Statistical Applied Mathematics (SAMBa)
