Political blogs network dataset

A directed network of hyperlinks between weblogs on US politics, recorded in 2005 by Adamic and Glance. Only the biggest connected component of the original graph is provided.

data(Blogs)

Format

An object of class list with two fields;

X

network adjacency matrix as a sparseMatrix of size 1222x1222

label

vector of political leaning of each blogs (size 1222) with the following encoding (0 = left or liberal,1 = right or conservative)

Source

M. E. J. Newman Network datasets

References

Lada A. Adamic and Natalie Glance, "The political blogosphere and the 2004 US Election", in Proceedings of the WWW-2005 Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem (2005) (ACM).

Examples

data(Blogs)