Exploring social networks – Zachary's karate club dataset

In 1977, Wayne W. Zachary published a paper in the Journal of Anthropological Research titled An Information Flow Model for Conflict and Fission in Small Groups. In this paper, he wrote about a social network of friendships between 34 members of a karate club at a US university. This paper depicted the information flow model for conflict and fission in small groups. In this recipe, we are going to dig into this case study and get a better understanding of this dataset.

Getting ready

To get started with this recipe, download the Zachary's karate club dataset from https://gephi.org/datasets/karate.gml.zip. Unzip the downloaded ZIP file and load the gml file into Gephi.

How to do it…

Follow these steps to explore the Zachary's karate club dataset that you just downloaded and unzipped:

1. Navigate to the folder where you unzipped the dataset and double-click on the karate.GML file to load it into Gephi.
2. You will notice...