MIT Reality Mining Proximity Network
A MIT Media Lab (mobile phone Bluetooth proximity sensing) dataset of 96 nodes and 2,539 edges, collected by Nathan Eagle & Alex Pentland via mobile phone study. Each record contains directed: False, weighted: True, signed: False, temporal: True. Bluetooth proximity contact network of 100 MIT students and faculty over 9 months. One of the earliest large-scale mobile sensing datasets, with temporal edges capturing when people were physically near each other.. Suitable for temporal network analysis, proximity sensing, community detection, mobility.
Cite this dataset at
mit-reality-mining.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
mit-reality-mining- Authors
- Eagle, Nathan; (Sandy) Pentland, Alex
- Year
- 2006
- Source paper
- Reality mining: sensing complex social systems
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1007/s00779-005-0046-3
- License
- CC BY-SA 2.0 Germany (as stated by KONECT) (LicenseRef-CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE)
- Records
- 96
- Nodes
- 96
- Edges
- 2,539
- Nodes are
- person
- Edges are
- proximity
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2004 (2000s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://konect.cc/networks/mit/ unverified
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 1.1 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
Reality mining: sensing complex social systems
N. Eagle, A. Pentland
Journal Article · Personal and Ubiquitous Computing · 2006
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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{Eagle_2005,
title = {Reality mining: sensing complex social systems},
volume = {10},
issn = {1617-4917},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00779-005-0046-3},
doi = {10.1007/s00779-005-0046-3},
number = {4},
journal = {Personal and Ubiquitous Computing},
publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},
author = {Eagle, Nathan and (Sandy) Pentland, Alex},
year = {2005},
month = Nov,
pages = {255–268}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Eagle, N., & (Sandy) Pentland, A. (2006). MIT Reality Mining Proximity Network [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-005-0046-3
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Eagle, Nathan, and Alex (Sandy) Pentland. MIT Reality Mining Proximity Network. 2006, doi.org/10.1007/s00779-005-0046-3.