Acquiring the Facebook graph
In Facebook, friends are represented by nodes and the relationship between friends is represented by links, but we can get a lot more information from it, such as gender, age, post list, likes, political affiliation, religion, and so on, and Facebook provides us with a complete HTTP-based API (Application Programming Interface) to work with its data. Follow this link for more information:
https://developers.facebook.com/
Another interesting option is the Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection, where we can find social network datasets well-formatted and anonymized for educational proposes. Follow this link for more information:
http://snap.stanford.edu/data/
Tip
Using anonymized data, it is possible to determine ...
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