R/blogosphere.R

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#' Political blogs network
#'
#' 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".
#'
#' @docType data
#'
#' @usage data(blogosphere)
#'
#' @format A list with 3 attributes:
#' \describe{
#'   \item{A}{ adjacency matrix of the graph. A binary matrix encoding
#'   16714 connections between 1222 nodes}
#'   \item{names}{ vector of the names political blogs corresponding to the
#'   rows and columns of the adjacency matrix}
#'   \item{opinion}{ vector of the political orientation of the blogs
#'   (0 for liberal, 1 for conservative).}
#' }
#' @source \url{http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/netdata/}
"blogosphere"