| # Political Blogs (Polblogs) |
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| **Task**: Political-leaning classification |
| **Size band**: small · **Label type**: semantic |
| **Label column**: `leaning` · **Converter**: `converters/convert_small_text.py` |
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| 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. |
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| ## Converted graphs (neext/) |
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| | graph | nodes | edges | classes | feature cols | isolated | class counts | |
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| | default | 1,490 | 16,715 | 2 | 0 | 266 | 0: 758, 1: 732 | |
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| *Conversion notes*: Netzschleuder CSV bundle; 'value' column (0=liberal, 1=conservative) used as label; blog names dropped; directed hyperlinks symmetrized. Contains isolated nodes. |
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| ## Source |
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| - [polblogs.csv.zip](https://networks.skewed.de/net/polblogs/files/polblogs.csv.zip) — 93,843 bytes, sha256 `a854433122316724…`, fetched 2026-07-23 |
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| **License**: Research use; cite Adamic & Glance |
| **Citation**: Adamic, Glance. The Political Blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. Election: Divided They Blog. LinkKDD 2005. |
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| - https://networks.skewed.de/net/polblogs |
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| ## Caveats |
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| - ~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. |
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| *Generated by converters/make_cards.py; stats from metadata.json. Raw files: `source/`. NEExT tables: `neext/`.* |
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