The sample dataset US_CS_adjacency.dat represents the North American faculty hiring network in Computer Science. It can be found at https://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~aaronc/facultyhiring/. An edge node1 node2 weight means that a number of weight faculties with a PhD obtained at institution node1 have been hired at institution node2.

The file US_CS_nodes.dat contains information about the nodes, specifically it maps the integer node ids to the names of the institutions.

The SpringRank scores are shown in US_CS_SpringRank_a0.0_l0_1.0_l1_1.0.dat and they refer to a choice of parameters alpha=0 and l_0=l_1=1.