This is the category human contact networks. It contains 7 networks. Human contact networks are unipartite networks of actual contact between persons, i.e., talking with each other, spending time together, or at least being physically close. Usually, these datasets are collected by giving out RFID tags to people with chips that record which other people are in the vicinity. Determining when an actual contact has happened (as opposed to for instance to persons standing back to back) is a nontrivial research problem. An example is the Reality Mining dataset (RM
).
Name | Attributes | n | m | Node meaning | Edge meaning |
HIV | 40 | 41 | AIDS patient | Sexual contact | |
Iceland | 75 | 114 | Person | Sexual contact | |
Windsurfers | 43 | 336 | Person | Contact | |
Infectious | 410 | 17,298 | Visitor | Contact | |
Hypertext 2009 | 113 | 20,818 | Visitor | Contact | |
Haggle | 274 | 28,244 | Person | Contact | |
Reality Mining | 96 | 1,086,404 | Person | Contact |