Political Blogs (Polblogs)
Task: Political-leaning classification
Size band: small · Label type: semantic
Label column: leaning · Converter: converters/convert_small_text.py
Hyperlink network of US political blogs captured before the 2004 election. Label is the blog's political leaning (0 = liberal, 1 = conservative). Community structure correlates strongly with the label.
Converted graphs (neext/)
| graph | nodes | edges | classes | feature cols | isolated | class counts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| default | 1,490 | 16,715 | 2 | 0 | 266 | 0: 758, 1: 732 |
Conversion notes: Netzschleuder CSV bundle; 'value' column (0=liberal, 1=conservative) used as label; blog names dropped; directed hyperlinks symmetrized. Contains isolated nodes.
Source
- polblogs.csv.zip — 93,843 bytes, sha256
a854433122316724…, fetched 2026-07-23
License: Research use; cite Adamic & Glance
Citation: Adamic, Glance. The Political Blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. Election: Divided They Blog. LinkKDD 2005.
Caveats
- ~266 isolated nodes; NEExT's filter_largest_component or explicit nodes.csv handling decides their fate.
- Newman's UMich mirror blocks scripted access; Netzschleuder is the reliable source.
Generated by converters/make_cards.py; stats from metadata.json. Raw files: source/. NEExT tables: neext/.