Brightkite Location-Based Social Network
A Brightkite (location-based social network) dataset of 58,228 users, 214,078 friendship edges, and 4.49M check-ins, collected by Cho et al. via Brightkite API (2008-2010). Each record contains undirected friendship edges, check-in records (timestamp, latitude, longitude, location_id). The dataset is notable for its location-based social network with rich spatiotemporal check-in data for mobility research. Intended for research into human mobility analysis, location-based social networks, friendship prediction, and urban computing.
Cite this dataset at
brightkite.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 58,228 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
brightkite- Authors
- Cho, Eunjoon; Myers, Seth A.; Leskovec, Jure
- Year
- 2011
- Source paper
- Friendship and mobility: user movement in location-based social networks
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1145/2020408.2020579
- License
- Academic use (SNAP Stanford) (LicenseRef-Research-Only)
- Records
- 58,228
- Nodes
- 58,228
- Edges
- 214,078
- Nodes are
- user
- Edges are
- friendship
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2008-04 to 2010-10 (2000s, 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/loc-brightkite.html link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 368.8 MB across 2 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
Friendship and mobility: user movement in location-based social networks
Eunjoon Cho, Seth A. Myers, J. Leskovec
Journal Article · Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining · 2011
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Citation data from Semantic Scholar, retrieved 2026-10-19.
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{Cho_2011,
series = {KDD ’11},
title = {Friendship and mobility: user movement in location-based social networks},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2020408.2020579},
doi = {10.1145/2020408.2020579},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining},
publisher = {ACM},
author = {Cho, Eunjoon and Myers, Seth A. and Leskovec, Jure},
year = {2011},
month = Aug,
pages = {1082–1090},
collection = {KDD ’11}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Cho, E., Myers, S. A., & Leskovec, J. (2011). Brightkite Location-Based Social Network [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1145/2020408.2020579
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Cho, Eunjoon, et al. Brightkite Location-Based Social Network. 2011, doi.org/10.1145/2020408.2020579.