Livemocha Language Learning Network
A Livemocha (language learning community) dataset of 104,103 users and 2,193,083 friendship edges, collected by Xia Hu (Ben) via Livemocha crawl, December 2010. Each record contains user-user friendship edges. The dataset is notable for its friendship network of the world's largest online language learning community, with 6M+ members across 200+ countries. Intended for research into social network analysis, community detection, and cross-cultural interaction studies.
Cite this dataset at
livemocha.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 104,103 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
livemocha- Authors
- Zafarani, R.; Liu, H.
- Year
- 2026
- Source paper
- Social Computing Data Repository
- License
- Academic Use (see Syracuse Data Lab terms) (LicenseRef-Research-Only)
- Records
- 104,103
- Nodes
- 104,103
- Edges
- 2,193,083
- Nodes are
- user
- Edges are
- friendship
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2010 (2010s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://datasets.syr.edu link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 24.5 MB across 3 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
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}
}
@misc{Data Lab:SU,
author = {R. Zafarani and H. Liu},
year = {2026},
title = {Social Computing Data Repository},
url = {https://datasets.syr.edu},
institution = {Data Lab, Syracuse University}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Zafarani, R., & Liu, H. (2026). Livemocha Language Learning Network [Data set]. https://livemocha.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Zafarani, R., and H. Liu. Livemocha Language Learning Network. 2026, livemocha.echo.directory/.