American College Football
Network of American football games between Division IA colleges during regular season Fall 2000. Please cite M. Girvan and M. E. J. Newman, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99, 7821-7826 (2002).
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Mark Newman data source
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/netdata/
Network data: This page contains links to some network data sets compiled over the years. All of these are free for scientific use to the best of my knowledge, meaning that the original authors have already made the data freely available, or that I have consulted the authors and received permission to the post the data here, or that the data are mine. If you make use of any of these data, please cite the original sources.
Astrophysics Collaborations
Weighted network of coauthorships between scientists posting preprints on the Astrophysics E-Print Archive between Jan 1, 1995 and December 31, 1999. Please cite M. E. J. Newman, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98, 404-409 (2001).
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Books about U.S. Politics
A network of books about US politics published around the time of the 2004 presidential election and sold by the online bookseller Amazon.com. Edges between books represent frequent copurchasing of books by the same buyers. The network was compiled by V. Krebs and is unpublished, but can found on Krebs’ web site.
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C. Elegans Neural network
A directed, weighted network representing the neural network of C. Elegans. Data compiled by D. Watts and S. Strogatz and made available on the web here. Please cite D. J. Watts and S. H. Strogatz, Nature 393, 440-442 (1998). Original experimental data taken from J. G. White, E. Southgate, J. N. Thompson, and S. Brenner, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. London 314, 1-340 (1986).
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Coauthorships in Network Science
Coauthorship network of scientists working on network theory and experiment, as compiled by M. Newman in May 2006. A figure depicting the largest component of this network can be found here . These data can be cited as M. E. J. Newman, Phys. Rev. E 74, 036104 (2006).
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Condensed matter collaborations 1999
Weighted network of coauthorships between scientists posting preprints on the Condensed Matter E-Print Archive between Jan 1, 1995 and December 31, 1999. Please cite M. E. J. Newman, The structure of scientific collaboration networks, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98, 404-409 (2001).
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Condensed matter collaborations 2003
Updated network of coauthorships between scientists posting preprints on the Condensed Matter E-Print Archive . This version includes all preprints posted between Jan 1, 1995 and June 30, 2003. The largest component of this network, which contains 27519 scientists, has been used by several authors as a test-bed for community-finding algorithms for large networks; see for ...
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Condensed Matter Collaborations 2005
Updated network of coauthorships between scientists posting preprints on the Condensed Matter E-Print Archive. This version includes all preprints posted between Jan 1, 1995 and March 31, 2005. Please cite M. E. J. Newman, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98, 404-409 (2001).
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Dolphin social network
An undirected social network of frequent associations between 62 dolphins in a community living off Doubtful Sound, New Zealand. Please cite D. Lusseau, K. Schneider, O. J. Boisseau, P. Haase, E. Slooten, and S. M. Dawson, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 54, 396-405 (2003). Thanks to David Lusseau for permission to post these data on this web site.
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High-energy Theory Collaborations
Weighted network of coauthorships between scientists posting preprints on the High-Energy Theory E-Print Archive between Jan 1, 1995 and December 31, 1999. Please cite M. E. J. Newman, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98, 404-409 (2001).
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Internet
A symmetrized snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of autonomous systems, reconstructed from BGP tables posted by the University of Oregon Route Views Project . This snapshot was created by Mark Newman from data for July 22, 2006 and is not previously published.
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Political blogs
A directed network of hyperlinks between weblogs on US politics, recorded in 2005 by Adamic and Glance. Please cite L. A. Adamic and N. Glance, “The political blogosphere and the 2004 US Election”, in Proceedings of the WWW-2005 Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem (2005). Thanks to Lada Adamic for permission to post these data on this web site.
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Power grid
An undirected, unweighted network representing the topology of the Western States Power Grid of the United States. Data compiled by D. Watts and S. Strogatz and made available on the web here . Please cite D. J. Watts and S. H. Strogatz, Nature 393, 440-442 (1998).
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Word Adjacencies
Adjacency network of common adjectives and nouns in the novel David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. Please cite M. E. J. Newman, Phys. Rev. E 74, 036104 (2006).
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Zachary's Karate Club
The file karate.gml contains the network of friendships between the 34 members of a karate club at a US university, as described by Wayne Zachary in 1977.
If you use these data in your work, please cite W. W. Zachary, An information flow model for conflict and fission in small groups, Journal of Anthropological Research 33, 452-473 (1977).
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