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Marvel Universe Social Network

A Marvel Comics character collaboration network

The Marvel Universe is an artificial social network that imitates a real social network. A vertex annotation "Name" describes either the name of hero or the the title of comic book and "Type" describes the type of vertex.

(19428 vertices, 96662 edges)

Examples

Basic Examples

Retrieve the graph:

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ResourceData["Marvel Universe Social Network"]
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Summary properties:

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ResourceData["Marvel Universe Social Network", All]["Summary"]
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Basic Applications

Find the types of the network:

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g = ResourceData["Marvel Universe Social Network"];
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Counts[Table[AnnotationValue[{g, i}, "Type"], {i, VertexList[g]}]]
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Find the top three heroes with the most connections:

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heroes = VertexList[ g, _?(AnnotationValue[{g, #}, "Type"] === "Hero" &)];
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top = AnnotationValue[{g, #}, "Name"] & /@ MaximalBy[heroes, VertexDegree[g, #] &, 3]
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Show the comics that Spider-man is in:

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spidey = First[MaximalBy[heroes, VertexDegree[g, #] &]];
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HighlightGraph[ NeighborhoodGraph[g, spidey, EdgeStyle -> Opacity[0.2]], spidey, Sequence[ VertexStyle -> Red, VertexSize -> 0.5, VertexLabels -> "Spider-man"]]
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Wolfram Research, "Marvel Universe Social Network" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2019)  

Data Resource History

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Source Metadata

  • Citation:
    • R. Alberich, J. Miro-Julia and F. Rossello, Marvel Universe looks almost like a real social network, cond-mat/0202174

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Publisher Information

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