PoliticalBlogs {MBCbook}

The political blog data set

Description

The political blog data set shows the linking structure in online blogs which commentate on French political issues; the data were collected by Observatoire Presidentielle in October 2006. The data were first used by Latouche et al. (2011) <doi:10.1214/10-AOAS382>.

Usage

data("PoliticalBlogs")

Format

A large network object, which can be managed with the network library, with 196 nodes.

References

P. Latouche, E. Birmelé, and C. Ambroise. "Overlapping stochastic block models with application to the French political blogosphere". In : Annals of Applied Statistics 5.1, p. 309-336, 2011 <doi:10.1214/10-AOAS382>.

Examples

data(PoliticalBlogs)

# Visualization with the network library
library(network)
plot(PoliticalBlogs)