Possible Data Sources for Network Construction

• CAIDA data : data collected by this well-known Internet research consortium. Vertices could be routers or autonomous systems. Edges could be network links or peering agreements.
• CERT data : details on network and computer security vulnerabilities.
• The Internet Movie Data Base: Vertices could be actors in a particular class of movies and edges would indicate that they were in the same movie together.
• United Nations Statistics Division : economic and trade data, demographic data, etc. Each vertex could be a nation. Edges could be significant trade relations.
• Bureau of Labor Statistics : Labor-related data collected by the government. Vertices could be various quantities tracked over time by BLS, like unemployment, consumer prices, productivity, wages, etc. There could be an edge between two such quantities if historically they are significantly correlated.
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Scientific and Technical Databases : cover a great deal of information from many different scientific disciplines
• Reuters Corpus : a large collection of news articles.
• Yahoo! finance : historical data on financial markets. Vertices could be companies listed in some index.