Moreno Seventh Grade Friendship Network
A Seventh grade classroom friendship survey dataset of 29 nodes and 376 edges, collected by J.L. Moreno. Each record contains directed edges: True, weighted: True, signed: False. This directed network contains proximity ratings between studetns from 29 seventh grade students from a school in Victoria. Among other questions the students were asked to nominate their preferred classmates for three different activities. A node represents a student. An edge between two nodes show. Suitable for social network analysis, community detection.
Cite this dataset at
moreno-seventh.echo.directory
Analytics
Node size is centrality, colour is community. Hover a node for details; click one to isolate its community.
Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
moreno-seventh- Authors
- Vickers, M.; Chan, S.
- Year
- 1981
- Source paper
- Representing classroom social structure
- License
- CC BY-SA 2.0 Germany (as stated by KONECT) (LicenseRef-CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE)
- Records
- 29
- Nodes
- 29
- Edges
- 376 (directed)
- Nodes are
- student
- Edges are
- rating
- Attributes
- nodes have attributes; edges have attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 1950 (Before 1990)
- Tasks
- Recommendation (ranking) inferred
From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Provenance
- Originally published at
- http://moreno.ss.uci.edu/data.html#seventh unverified
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 2.5 KB across 1 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}
}
@techreport{vickers1981,
title = {Representing classroom social structure},
author = {Vickers, M. and Chan, S.},
institution = {Victoria Institute of Secondary Education, Melbourne},
year = {1981}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Vickers, M., & Chan, S. (1981). Moreno Seventh Grade Friendship Network [Data set]. https://moreno-seventh.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Vickers, M., and S. Chan. Moreno Seventh Grade Friendship Network. 1981, moreno-seventh.echo.directory/.