Tastes, Ties, and Time: Facebook data release

Facebook在美國很紅很紅，可是在台灣就還好，台灣Web2.0的應用真的很落後，據在大陸工作的數位之牆牆主黃彥達最近這一系列的文章，大陸至少超前我們1年以上= ="，聽起來很不是滋味，不過"市場"可以決定競爭，競爭大多數可以讓品質更好。有時候讀讀這些商業性的網路文章、雜誌或新聞，會讓我比較貼近網路真實、網路中的"市場"，尤其從生產者進入或消費者習性分析性的文章，更能銜接我與網路社會生態的脫落，而能稍微脫離學究式的社會想像，進而思考政策、市場、創意之間的關聯。

這是Harvard做的案子，裡面有社會網絡資料喔，詳見part3 relational data in codebook p.22。

Tastes, Ties, and Time: Facebook data release
September 25, 2008
In collaboration with Harvard sociology graduate students Kevin Lewis and Marco Gonzalez, and with UCLA professor Andreas Wimmer and Harvard professor Nicholas Christakis, Berkman Fellow Jason Kaufman has made available a first wave of Facebook.com data through the Dataverse Network Project.

The dataset comprises machine-readable files of virtually all the information posted on approximately 1,700 FB profiles by an entire cohort of students at an anonymous, northeastern American university. Profiles were sampled at one-year intervals, beginning in 2006. This first wave covers first-year profiles, and three additional waves of data will be added over time, one for each year of the cohort's college career.

Though friendships outside the cohort are not part of the data, this snapshot of an entire class over its four years in college, including supplementary information about where students lived on campus, makes it possible to pose diverse questions about the relationships between social networks, online and offline.

Special thanks are due to Kevin Lewis, and to Marco Gonzalez, for their heavy lifting on the project.

Researchers may access the data at http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/t3.