igraphdata (version 1.0.1)

UKfaculty: Friendship network of a UK university faculty

Description

The personal friendship network of a faculty of a UK university, consisting of 81 vertices (individuals) and 817 directed and weighted connections. The school affiliation of each individual is stored as a vertex attribute. This dataset can serve as a testbed for community detection algorithms.

Usage

UKfaculty

Arguments

Format

A directed igraph graph object with vertex attribute ‘Group’, the numeric id of the school affiliation, and edge attribute ‘weight’, i.e. the graph is weighted. This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/uk/ for details. Please cite the reference below if you use this dataset.

Source

See reference below.

References

Nepusz T., Petroczi A., Negyessy L., Bazso F.: Fuzzy communities and the concept of bridgeness in complex networks. Physical Review E 77:016107, 2008.