TUAW Blog Post Dataset
A TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) dataset of 10,485 blog posts, collected by Agarwal, Tang, Liu, and Yu via TUAW crawl (2004-2007). Each record contains blog post title, text, author, categories, publication date, inlinks, outlinks, and comment counts. The dataset is notable for its blog dataset with rich metadata, representing a closed community of Apple-focused bloggers. Intended for research into influential blogger identification, blog post analysis, text classification, and influence modeling.
Cite this dataset at
tuaw.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 10,485 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
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Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
tuaw- Authors
- Agarwal, Nitin; Tang, Lei; Liu, Huan; Yu, Philip S.
- Year
- 2008
- Source paper
- Identifying the Influential Bloggers in a Community
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1145/1341531.1341559
- License
- Academic Use (see Syracuse Data Lab terms) (LicenseRef-Research-Only)
- Records
- 10,485
- Nodes
- 10,485
- Nodes are
- blog post
- Edges are
- hyperlink
- Attributes
- nodes have attributes; edges have no attributes
- Text corpus
- blog post text
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2004 to 2007 (2000s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://datasets.syr.edu link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 10.3 MB across 2 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
Identifying the influential bloggers in a community
N. Agarwal, Huan Liu, Lei Tang, Philip S. Yu
Journal Article · Web Search and Data Mining · 2008
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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{agarwal2008identifying,
title = {{Identifying the Influential Bloggers in a Community}},
author = {Agarwal, Nitin and Tang, Lei and Liu, Huan and Yu, Philip S.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'08)},
pages = {207--218},
year = {2008},
doi = {10.1145/1341531.1341559}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Agarwal, N., Tang, L., Liu, H., & Yu, P. S. (2008). TUAW Blog Post Dataset [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1145/1341531.1341559
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Agarwal, Nitin, et al. TUAW Blog Post Dataset. 2008, doi.org/10.1145/1341531.1341559.