covert_2: 9/11 Hijackers

In schochastics/networkdata: Repository of Network Datasets

9/11 Hijackers

Description

Famous dataset of the terrorists involved in the 9/11 bombing of the World Trade Centres in 2011. Data was extracted from news reports and ties range from ‘at school with’ to ‘on same plane’. 1-mode matrix 19 x 19 person by person of trusted prior contacts and 1-mode matrix 61 x 61 of other associates. Ties are undirected and binary. Relations are a mix of prior-contacts like trained together, lived together, financial transactions, at school with, on same flight.

Usage

covert_2

Format

igraph object

Source

Reconstructed at Manchester (https://sites.google.com/site/ucinetsoftware/datasets/covert-networks).

http://orgnet.com/tnet.html

http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/941/863#fig4

References

Krebs, Valdis E. "Mapping networks of terrorist cells." Connections 24.3 (2002): 43-52.

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