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whigs: Membership network of American Whigs

Description

This dataset shows the membership of 136 colonial Americans in 5 whig organization and is a bipartite graph. The data appeared in the appendix to David Hackett Fischer's Paul Revere's Ride (Oxford University Press, 1995) and compiled by Kieran Healy for the blog post Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere.

Usage

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Format

The data is stored as an incidence matrix with persons as rows and organizations as columns. A 0 means no membership while a one means membership.