contact-high-school

Overview

This is a temporal hypergraph dataset, which here means a sequence of timestamped hyperedges where each hyperedge is a set of nodes. This dataset was constructed from a contact network amongst high school students in Marseilles, France, in December 2013. The contact network was downloaded from 

We form hyperedges through cliques of simultaneous contacts. Specifically, for every unique timestamp in the dataset, we construct a hyperedge for every maximal clique amongst the contact edges that exist for that timestamp. Timestamps were recorded in 20-second intervals.

Statistics

Some basic statistics of this dataset are:

• Number of nodes: 327
• Number of timestamped hyperedges: 172,035
• There is a single connected component of size 327

Changelog

• v0.1: Updated format to HIF

Source of original data

Sources:

• SocioPatterns

References

If you use this dataset, please cite these references:

• Contact Patterns in a High School: A Comparison between Data Collected Using Wearable Sensors, Contact Diaries and Friendship Surveys. Rossana Mastrandrea, Julie Fournet, and Alain Barrat. PLoS ONE, 2015.