Gowalla

Overview

Dataset name: Gowalla
Latest version: checkins
Available versions: checkins, friendships
Source: https://snap.stanford.edu/data/loc-gowalla.html

Gowalla is a location-based social networking website where users share their locations by checking-in.

Citation

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/kdd/ChoML11,
  author       = {Eunjoon Cho and
                  Seth A. Myers and
                  Jure Leskovec},
  editor       = {Chid Apt{\'{e}} and
                  Joydeep Ghosh and
                  Padhraic Smyth},
  title        = {Friendship and mobility: user movement in location-based social networks},
  booktitle    = {Proceedings of the 17th {ACM} {SIGKDD} International Conference on
                  Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, San Diego, CA, USA, August 21-24,
                  2011},
  pages        = {1082--1090},
  publisher    = {{ACM}},
  year         = {2011},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.1145/2020408.2020579},
  doi          = {10.1145/2020408.2020579},
  timestamp    = {Sun, 02 Jun 2019 21:11:54 +0200},
  biburl       = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/kdd/ChoML11.bib},
  bibsource    = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}

Version: checkins

Data Sources

Name	Source type	Archive	URL	Checksum
checkins	HttpSource	gz	https://snap.stanford.edu/data/loc-gowalla_totalCheckins.txt.gz	md5:8ebd5ed2dd376d8982987c49429cb9f9

Resources

checkins

Type: interactions
Format: transactions_tabular
Required: yes
Source: checkins
Filename: loc-gowalla_totalCheckins.txt

Schema

sep: "\t"
user_col: 0
item_col: 4
timestamp_col: 1

Dataset Characteristics

Computed at: 2025-12-15

Metric	Value
n_users	107092
n_items	1280969
n_interactions	6442892
space_size	370.3802534531235
space_size_log	2.5686478245408155
shape	0.08360233541951445
shape_log	-1.0777815904360875
density	4.696617612528927e-05
density_log	-4.32821479760447
gini_item	0.6297417387377424
gini_user	0.6915022878282465
ratings_per_user	60.16221566503567
ratings_per_item	5.029701733609478

License & Usage

Please refer to the official dataset page for licensing and usage restrictions. https://snap.stanford.edu/data/loc-gowalla.html