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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: friendships

Data Sources

Name Source type Archive URL Checksum
friendships HttpSource gz https://snap.stanford.edu/data/loc-gowalla_edges.txt.gz md5:68bce8dc51609fe32bbd95e668aaf65e

Resources

ratings

  • Type: interactions
  • Format: transactions_tabular
  • Required: yes
  • Source: friendships
  • Filename: loc-gowalla_edges.txt

Schema

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

Dataset Characteristics

Computed at: 2025-12-15

Metric Value
n_users 196591
n_items 196591
n_interactions 1900654
space_size 196.591
space_size_log 2.2935636318083987
shape 1.0
shape_log 0.0
density 4.917855913452399e-05
density_log -4.308224199653671
gini_item 0.6833529689546158
gini_user 0.6833529689546158
ratings_per_user 9.668062118815206
ratings_per_item 9.668062118815206

License & Usage

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