TheMarker Cafe Social Network
A TheMarker Cafe dataset of 69,413 users and 1,644,849 undirected friendship links, collected by Fire et al. (2011) and distributed by Network Repository. TheMarker Cafe was an Israeli online community where most interaction was in Hebrew. Suitable for link prediction, social network analysis, community detection and regional online community studies.
Cite this dataset at
themarker.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 69,413 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
themarker- Authors
- Fire, M.; Tenenboim, L.; Lesser, O.; Puzis, R.; Rokach, L.; Elovici, Y.
- Year
- 2011
- Source paper
- Link Prediction in Social Networks using Computationally Efficient Topological Features
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1109/passat/socialcom.2011.20
- License
- See source page for citation/usage terms.
- Records
- 69,413
- Nodes
- 69,413
- Edges
- 1,644,849
- Nodes are
- user
- Edges are
- friendship
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
- Languages
- en, he
- Collected
- 2011 (2010s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
- Region
- Israel · Middle East & North Africa (inferred: named in the description)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://networkrepository.com/soc-themarker.php link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 19.9 MB across 2 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
Link Prediction in Social Networks Using Computationally Efficient Topological Features
M. Fire, Lena Tenenboim, O. Lesser, Rami Puzis, L. Rokach
Journal Article · 2011 IEEE Third Int'l Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and 2011 IEEE Third Int'l Conference on Social Computing · 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{Fire2011,
title = {Link Prediction in Social Networks using Computationally Efficient Topological Features},
author = {Fire, M. and Tenenboim, L. and Lesser, O. and Puzis, R. and Rokach, L. and Elovici, Y.},
booktitle = {IEEE Third International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom)},
pages = {73--80},
year = {2011},
organization = {IEEE}
}
@inproceedings{nr,
title = {The Network Data Repository with Interactive Graph Analytics and Visualization},
author = {Ryan A. Rossi and Nesreen K. Ahmed},
booktitle = {AAAI},
url = {https://networkrepository.com},
year = {2015}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Fire, M., Tenenboim, L., Lesser, O., Puzis, R., Rokach, L., & Elovici, Y. (2011). TheMarker Cafe Social Network [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1109/passat/socialcom.2011.20
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Fire, M., et al. TheMarker Cafe Social Network. 2011, doi.org/10.1109/passat/socialcom.2011.20.