Moreno Van de Bunt Freshman Network
A University freshman friendship survey (longitudinal) dataset of 32 nodes and 710 edges, collected by Van de Bunt et al.. Each record contains directed edges: True, weighted: True, signed: True. This directed network contains friendship ratings between 32 university freshmen who mostly did not know each other before starting university. Each student was asked to rate the other student at seven different time points. Note that the origin of the timestamps is not accurately known but the dis. Suitable for longitudinal social network analysis, friendship formation. The file holds 3,062 ratings, one row per rating in each survey wave; the edge count of 710 counts distinct pairs.
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Analytics
Node size is centrality, colour is community. Hover a node for details; click one to isolate its community.
Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
moreno-vdb- Authors
- Van De Bunt, Gerhard G.; Van Duijn, Marijtje A.J.; Snijders, Tom A.B.
- Year
- 1999
- Source paper
- Friendship Networks Through Time: An Actor-Oriented Dynamic Statistical Network Model
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1023/A:1009683123448
- License
- CC BY-SA 2.0 Germany (as stated by KONECT) (LicenseRef-CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE)
- Records
- 32
- Nodes
- 32
- Edges
- 710 (directed)
- Nodes are
- student
- Edges are
- rating
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 1999 (1990s)
- Tasks
- Edge sign prediction (binary;
sign) inferred, Recommendation (ranking) inferred
From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Provenance
- Originally published at
- http://moreno.ss.uci.edu/data.html#vdb unverified
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 7.6 KB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
Friendship Networks Through Time: An Actor-Oriented Dynamic Statistical Network Model
G. G. van de Bunt, M. V. van Duijn, T. Snijders
Journal Article · Computational and mathematical organization theory · 1999
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Citation data from Semantic Scholar, retrieved 2026-10-19.
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}
}
@article{Van_De_Bunt_1999,
title = {Friendship Networks Through Time: An Actor-Oriented Dynamic Statistical Network Model},
volume = {5},
issn = {1572-9346},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1009683123448},
doi = {10.1023/a:1009683123448},
number = {2},
journal = {Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory},
publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},
author = {Van De Bunt, Gerhard G. and Van Duijn, Marijtje A.J. and Snijders, Tom A.B.},
year = {1999},
month = July,
pages = {167–192}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Van De Bunt, G. G., Van Duijn, M. A., & Snijders, T. A. (1999). Moreno Van de Bunt Freshman Network [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009683123448
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Van De Bunt, Gerhard G., et al. Moreno Van de Bunt Freshman Network. 1999, doi.org/10.1023/A:1009683123448.