The Slashdot dataset is a relational dataset obtained from Slashdot. Slashdot is a technology-related news website know for its specific user community. The website features user-submitted and editor-evaluated current primarily technology oriented news. In 2002 Slashdot introduced the Slashdot Zoo feature which allows users to tag each other as friends or foes. The network cotains friend/foe links between the users of Slashdot. The network was obtained in February 2009.
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The Epinions dataset is built form a who-trust-whom online social network of a general consumer review site Epinions.com. Members of the site can decide whether to ''trust'' each other. All the trust relationships interact and form the Web of Trust which is then combined with review ratings to determine which reviews are shown to the user. It contains 75,879 nodes and 50,8837 edges.
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