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Zachary's Karate Club Network

Social network of friendships

Social network of friendships between 34 members of a karate club at a US university in the 1970s.

(34 vertices, 78 edges)

Examples

Basic Examples

Retrieve the graph:

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ResourceData["Zachary's Karate Club Network"]
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Summary properties:

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ResourceData["Zachary's Karate Club Network", All]["Summary"]
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Basic Applications

Find communities in the friendship network:

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g = ResourceData["Zachary's Karate Club Network"];
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FindGraphCommunities[g, Method -> "Hierarchical"]
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Predict the split of the network in case of a conflict:

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HighlightGraph[g, Subgraph[g, #] & /@ %, GraphHighlightStyle -> "DehighlightHide"]
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Wolfram Research, "Zachary's Karate Club Network" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2019)  

Data Resource History

  • Date Created:

Source Metadata

  • Citation:
    • W. W. Zachary, An information flow model for conflict and fission in small groups, Journal of Anthropological Research 33 , 452-473 (1977).

Publisher Information

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