Moreno Beach Windsurfer Network
A Windsurfer social interaction at a beach dataset of 43 nodes and 336 edges, collected by Freeman et al.. Each record contains directed edges: False, weighted: True, signed: False. This undirected network contains interpersonal contacts between windsurfers in southern California during the fall of 1986. A node represents a windsurfer and an edge between two windsurfers shows that there was a interpersonal contact.. Suitable for social network analysis, community detection.
Cite this dataset at
moreno-beach.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-beach- Authors
- Freeman, Linton C; Webster, Cynthia M; Kirke, Deirdre M
- Year
- 1998
- Source paper
- Exploring social structure using dynamic three-dimensional color images
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1016/S0378-8733(97)00016-6
- License
- CC BY-SA 2.0 Germany (as stated by KONECT) (LicenseRef-CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE)
- Records
- 43
- Nodes
- 43
- Edges
- 336
- Nodes are
- user
- Edges are
- contact
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 1997 (1990s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Provenance
- Originally published at
- http://moreno.ss.uci.edu/data.html#beach unverified
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 2.3 KB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
Exploring social structure using dynamic three-dimensional color images
Linton C. Freeman, Cynthia M. Webster, Deirdre M. Kirke
1998
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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}
}
@article{Freeman_1998,
title = {Exploring social structure using dynamic three-dimensional color images},
volume = {20},
issn = {0378-8733},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0378-8733(97)00016-6},
doi = {10.1016/s0378-8733(97)00016-6},
number = {2},
journal = {Social Networks},
publisher = {Elsevier BV},
author = {Freeman, Linton C and Webster, Cynthia M and Kirke, Deirdre M},
year = {1998},
month = Apr,
pages = {109–118}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Freeman, L. C., Webster, C. M., & Kirke, D. M. (1998). Moreno Beach Windsurfer Network [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-8733(97)00016-6
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Freeman, Linton C, et al. Moreno Beach Windsurfer Network. 1998, doi.org/10.1016/S0378-8733(97)00016-6.