Social_Evolution {goldfish}R Documentation

Social evolution of a university dormitory cohort

Description

An abbreviated version of the MIT Reality Commons Social Evolution dataset, spanning a reduced time period and with fewer variables. Dyadic variables include binary friendships at time of survey, and time-stamped phone call occurrences. Individual variables include the floor of the dormitory on which the student resides, and the grade type of each student including freshmen, sophomore, junior, senior, or graduate tutors.

Usage

data(Social_Evolution)

actors

calls

friendship

Format

3 dataframes: actors (84 rows, 4 columns), calls (439 rows, 4 columns), friendship (766 rows, 4 columns). See below for variables and formats.

Object Description Format
actors$label Actor identifier labels character
actors$present Actor present in dataset boolean
actors$floor Floor of residence actor lives on numeric (1-9)
actors$gradeType Degree level numeric (1-5)
calls$time Time and date of call numeric from POSIXct
calls$sender Initiator of phone call character
calls$receiver Recipient of phone call character
calls$increment Indicates call number increment (all 1s) numeric (1)
friendship$time Time and date of friend nomination numeric from POSIXct
friendship$sender Nominator of friendship character
friendship$receiver Nominee of friendship character
friendship$replace Indicates friendship value at $time numeric

An object of class data.frame with 84 rows and 4 columns.

An object of class data.frame with 439 rows and 4 columns.

An object of class data.frame with 766 rows and 4 columns.

Source

http://realitycommons.media.mit.edu/socialevolution.html

References

A. Madan, M. Cebrian, S. Moturu, K. Farrahi, A. Pentland (2012). Sensing the 'Health State' of a Community. Pervasive Computing. 11, 4, pp. 36-45. doi:10.1109/MPRV.2011.79.


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