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Political Blogs Network

A directed network of hyperlinks

A directed network of hyperlinks between weblogs on US politics recorded in 2005. The vertex annotation "Classification" indicates political leaning. The edge weight indicates the duplicity of hyperlinks.

(1490 vertices, 16718 edges)

Examples

Basic Examples

Retrieve the graph:

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ResourceData["Political Blogs Network"]
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Summary properties:

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ResourceData["Political Blogs Network", All]["Summary"]
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Basic Applications

Show the classifications:

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g = ResourceData["Political Blogs Network"];
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vertices = VertexList[g];
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classes = Counts[AnnotationValue[{g, #}, "Classification"] & /@ vertices]
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PieChart[classes, ChartLabels -> Placed[Automatic, "RadialCenter"]]
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Show the most used source:

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Keys[Sort[Counts[AnnotationValue[{g, #}, "Source"] & /@ vertices], Greater]][[1]]
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Wolfram Research, "Political Blogs Network" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2019)  

Data Resource History

  • Date Created:

Source Metadata

  • Citation:
    • L. A. Adamic and N. Glance, "The political blogosphere and the 2004 US Election", in Proceedings of the WWW-2005 Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem (2005).

Data Downloads

Publisher Information

  • Prepared for the Wolfram Data Repository By: Wolfram
  • Publisher of Record: Wolfram Research