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Political blogs network
Description
Network of political blogs, first analyzed in "The political blogosphere and the 2004 US Election" by Lada A. Adamic and Natalie Glance, in Proceedings of the WWW-2005 Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem (2005). This data set, collected before the 2004 American presidential election, records hyperlinks connecting political blogs to one another. These blogs have been labeled manually as either "liberal" or "conservative".
Usage
data(blogosphere)
Format
A list with 3 attributes:
- A
adjacency matrix of the graph. A binary matrix encoding 16714 connections between 1222 nodes
- names
vector of the names political blogs corresponding to the rows and columns of the adjacency matrix
- opinion
vector of the political orientation of the blogs (0 for liberal, 1 for conservative).
Source
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/netdata/