BFpack (version 0.2.1)

actors: Actors from a consultancy firm

Description

Information on 25 actors of a consultancy firm for which a sequence of e-mail messages is observed (can be accessed through the 'events' data object). The actor data is simulated based on information provided in Mulder & Leenders (2019). In the original data, 70 actors were involved. The current data is a random sample of 25 actors.

Usage

data(actors)

Arguments

Format

dataframe (25 rows, 4 columns)

actors$id integer ID of the employee, corresponding to the sender and receiver IDs in the events dataframe
actors$position numeric Hierarchical position of the employee, ranging from 1-4
actors$division character Categorical variable, indicating the division of the employee
actors$location integer Categorical variable, indicating the location of the building the employee works in

Details

The related data files 'events', 'same_building', 'same_division' and 'same_hierarchy' contain information on the event sequence and three event statistics respectively.

References

Mulder, J., & Leenders, R. T. (2019). Modeling the evolution of interaction behavior in social networks: A dynamic relational event approach for real-time analysis. Chaos, Solitons and Fractal Nonlinear, 119, 73-85, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2018.11.027 doi:10.1016/j.chaos.2018.11.027