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Paul Revere Groups Network

Source: R/data.R
paul.revere.groups.Rd

Association network of groups involved in the paul.revere network comprised of leaders from the American Revolution in the Boston area.

Usage

paul.revere.groups

Format

An undirected igraph graph object.

Vertex Attributes:

  • "name": Name of the group

  • "members": list of people in paul.revere who were known members of the group

Edge Attributes:

  • "weight": edge weight, people who were members of both groups

  • "shared.members": vector of length weight stating which people were members of both groups

Source

Data originally published by Fischer (1994) and electronically published on GitHub by Healy (2017) . Also found in Han (2009) .

Details

This network includes the seven groups that the 254 men of the paul.revere network were involved in: the Masonic lodge that met at the Green Dragon Tavern; the Loyal Nine, which was the nucleus of the Sons of Liberty; the North Caucus that met at the Salutation Tavern; the Long Room Club in Dassett Alley; the Boston Committee of Correspondence; the men who are known to have participated in the Boston Tea Party; and Whig leaders on a Tory Enemies List.

Nodes in this network are the groups. An edge exists between two groups if at least one person was a member of both groups, and the edge weight is the number of people who were members of both groups (e.g. Thomas Crafts and Henry Welles were both members of St. Andrews Lodge and the Loyal Nine, so there is an edge of weight two between St. Andrews Lodge and the Loyal Nine. There were no people in both the Loyal Nine and the Long Room Club so there is not edge between them).

References

Fischer DH (1994). Paul Revere's Ride. Oxford University Press.

Han SK (2009). “The other ride of Paul Revere: The brokerage role in the making of the American revolution.” Mobilization: An International Quarterly, 14(2), 143--162. doi:10.17813/maiq.14.2.g360870167085210 .

Healy K (2017). “Using Metadata to find Paul Revere.” https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metadata-to-find-paul-revere/. Accessed: 2024-11-01, https://github.com/kjhealy/revere?tab=readme-ov-file.

Examples

data("paul.revere.groups")
set.seed(600)
plot(paul.revere.groups,
     edge.width = igraph::E(paul.revere.groups)$weight)