classicnets: Classic Data of Social Networks

The goal of classicnets is to make available, compile and conserve classic data of social networks. We follow the history of this perspective based on Linton Freeman, John Scott and reviews from Ibero-America. The data are in the classic matrix format.

🖊 Author/mantainer: Alejandro Espinosa-Rada

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• 🏫 Social Networks Lab, ETH Zürich

🖊 Author/mantainer: Francisca Ortiz

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• 🏫 The Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis, The University of Manchester
• 🏫 Millennium Institute for Caregiving Research (MICARE)

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Social Networks Available

You can install the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("anespinosa/classicnets")

library(classicnets)

Friendship choices among pupils

Moreno, Jacob L. (1934). Who Shall Survive? Washington, DC: Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Company.

data("pupils_classroom")

Western Electric Company

Roethlisberger, Fritz Jules and Dickson, William John (1939). Management and the worker. An Account of a Research Program Conducted by the Western Electric Company, Hawthorne Works, Chicago. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts.

data("bank_room")
matrix_to_edgelist(bank_room$friendship, digraph = TRUE)

Southern Women

Davis, Allison; Gardner, Burleigh B. and Mary. R. Gardner (1941). Deep South: A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Class. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

data("southern_women")

Corner Boys

Whyte, Willian Foote (1993[1943]). Street corner society. The social structure of an italian slum. Chicago, United States: The University of Chicago Press.

data("corner_boys")
data("informalorg_corneville")

Tolman and Howe Courts

Festinger, Leon, Stanley, Schachter and Back, Kurt (1950). Social pressures in informal groups. A study of human factors in housing. California, United States: Stanford University Press.

data("tolman_court")
data("howe_court")

Dispute of Worker of a Miner

Kapferer, Bruce (1969). Norms and the manipulation of relationships in a work context. In J Mitchell (ed), Social networks in urban situations. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

data("miner_dispute")

Mapuches in Coipuco

Stuchlik, Milan (1976). The life on half share. Mechanisms of Social Recruitment among the Mapuche of Southern Chile. London: C. Hurst & Company.

data("kin_mapuche")
data("labor_mapuche")
data("informalhelp_mapuche")
data("participation_mapuche")

Karate Club

Zachary, Wayne W. (1977). An information flow model for conflict and fission in small groups. Journal of Anthropological Research, 33(4), 452-473.

data("karate_club")

The Electronic Information Exchange System

• Freeman, S.C., Freeman, L.C. (1979). The networkers network: A study of the impact of a new communications medium on sociometric structure. Social Science Research Reports 46. University of California, Irvine, CA.
• Freeman, L.C., and Freeman, S.C. (1980). A semi-visible college: Structural effects on a social networks group. In Henderson, M.M., and McNaughton, M.J. (eds.) Electronic Communication: Technology and Impacts Boulder (pp. 77-85), CO: Westview Press

data("eies")

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Social Network Data

There are other excellent R packages for other and in some cases more comprehensive datasets such as:

• igraphdata
• networkdata

Other repositories (list created by participants of the conference Networks 2021: A Joint Sunbelt and NetSci Conference):

• UCINET
• PAJEK
• KONECT
• Netzschleuder
• Connections
• Gephi
• snap
• icon
• networkrepository
• Voter Fraud
• Konect Project
• Twitter Politicians
• Sociopatterns
• Kdnuggets
• Awesome Network Analysis
• Microsoft Academic
• Datacommons
• figshare
• kaggle
• ConcISE
• Alec’s Project Documentation

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Notes

• Please report any missing sources/references for datasets.

• Many datasets were manually gathered and may in this manner contain blunders. On the off chance that you detect any, please report them.

• Double check the original source for any irregularities if you need to use the information in an academic paper.

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Code of conduct

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

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