Sponsored and Unsponsored Posts on Instagram

The dataset release comprises 2 Comma Separated Values (CSV) files, one for sponsored posts and another for unsponsored posts collected between 4/15/20 and 5/15/20. The first file "sponsored_posts.csv" contains 29,425 rows with each row representing a post. The second file "unsponsored_posts.csv" contains 28,779 rows with each row representing a post. For each post, the following attributes are collected as columns in each file:

1. user_id: The Instagram ID of the user
2. user_followers:The number of out-degree nodes for the user
3. likes: The number of likes for the post
4. comments: The number of comments for the post
5. id: The Instagram ID of the Post