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# karate_club_graph

karate_club_graph()

  Returns Zachary’s Karate Club graph.

  Each node in the returned graph has a node attribute ‘club’ that indicates the name of the club to which the member represented by that node belongs, either ‘Mr. Hi’ or ‘Officer’. Each edge has a weight based on the number of contexts in which that edge’s incident node members interacted.

  The dataset is derived from the ‘Club After Split From Data’ column of Table 3 in [1]. This was in turn derived from the ‘Club After Fission’ column of Table 1 in the same paper. Note that the nodes are 0-indexed in NetworkX, but 1-indexed in the paper (the ‘Individual Number in Matrix C’ column of Table 3 starts at 1). This means, for example, that `G.nodes[9]["club"]` returns ‘Officer’, which corresponds to row 10 of Table 3 in the paper.

  References

  [1]

  Zachary, Wayne W. “An Information Flow Model for Conflict and Fission in Small Groups.” Journal of Anthropological Research, 33, 452–473, (1977).

  Examples

  To get the name of the club to which a node belongs:

      >>> G = nx.karate_club_graph()
      >>> G.nodes[5]["club"]
      'Mr. Hi'
      >>> G.nodes[9]["club"]
      'Officer'