SNAP ego-GooglePlus Social Circles
A Google+ (now defunct) dataset of 102,100 nodes and 13,548,655 directed edges across 132 ego networks with ground-truth circles, collected by McAuley and Leskovec (Stanford, 2012) from public Google+ profiles. Each record contains directed follow edges, ground-truth circle memberships (Google+ circles shared publicly), anonymized node feature vectors representing profile attributes. 133 Google+ ego networks with publicly shared ground-truth circles from users who voluntarily released their circle data, providing a uniquely clean community ground-truth from a directed social platform. Suitable for overlapping community detection, ego network analysis, directed social circle inference, link prediction.
Cite this dataset at
snap-ego-gplus.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 102,100 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
snap-ego-gplus- Authors
- McAuley, Julian; Leskovec, Jure
- Year
- 2012
- Source paper
- Learning to Discover Social Circles in Ego Networks
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.48550/arXiv.1210.8182
- License
- Unknown — SNAP public research dataset
- Records
- 102,100
- Nodes
- 102,100
- Edges
- 13,548,655 (directed)
- Nodes are
- user
- Edges are
- follow
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2012 (2010s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://snap.stanford.edu/data/ego-Gplus.html link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 2.4 GB across 778 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
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}
}
@inproceedings{mcauley2012circles,
title = {Learning to Discover Social Circles in Ego Networks},
author = {McAuley, Julian and Leskovec, Jure},
booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)},
year = {2012},
doi = {10.48550/arXiv.1210.8182}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
McAuley, J., & Leskovec, J. (2012). SNAP ego-GooglePlus Social Circles [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1210.8182
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
McAuley, Julian, and Jure Leskovec. SNAP ego-GooglePlus Social Circles. 2012, doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1210.8182.