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Books about US Politics

Network of books about US politics published around the time of the 2004 presidential election, sold by Amazon.com. Edges connect books frequently co-purchased by the same buyers. The 'value' property indicates political alignment: 'l' for liberal, 'n' for neutral, 'c' for conservative.

npx keepset fetch polbooks

Nodes
105
Edges
441
Size
3.9 KiB

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Overview

Idpolbooks
Categorygraph/v1
Kindgraph
DomainCo-purchasing network
Tagslabeled
LicenceFree for scientific use, to the best of the compiler's knowledge
Cataloguekeepset 1.33.0

Sources and provenance

#URLStatusRetrievedRead by recipePinned snapshotSHA-256
0https://websites.umich.edu/~mejn/netdata/polbooks.ziplive2026-01-17yes
1https://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/MM/Newman/polbooks.tar.gzlive2026-10-21
2https://sparse.tamu.edu/MM/Newman/polbooks.tar.gzlive2026-01-17
3https://sparse.tamu.edu/RB/Newman/polbooks.tar.gzlive2026-01-17
4https://sparse.tamu.edu/mat/Newman/polbooks.tar.gzlive2026-01-17
5https://networkdata.ics.uci.edu/data/polbooks/polbooks.gmllive2026-01-1720261022011929raw29e2439036fa

Citations

Recipe

Source#0
Archivezip
Memberending .gml
Parser format"gml"
Parser encoding"utf-8"

Crosswalk

keepset/topology to graph/v1, as a crossmap crosswalk.

RuleFromToDirection
movemetametaboth
movenodes[].idnodes[].idboth
moveedges[].sourceedges[].sourceboth
moveedges[].targetedges[].targetboth

Expected counts

Edges441
Nodes105

Properties

Components1
Connectedyes
Cyclicyes
Density0.08077
Directedno
Download bytes3.9 KiB
Edge types1
Heterogeneousno
Multigraphno
Node types1
Raw bytes40.1 KiB
Self loopsno
Weightedno