One-mode network collected by McNulty (2020) on the connections between the Friends TV series characters from Seasons 1 to 10. The fict_friends is an undirected network containing connections between characters organised by season number, which is reflected in the tie attribute 'wave'. The network contains 650 nodes Each tie represents the connection between a character pair (appear in the same scene), and the 'weight' of the tie is the number of scenes the character pair appears in together. For all networks, characters are named (eg. Phoebe, Ross, Rachel).

data(fict_friends)

Format

#> # Friends network
#> # A labelled, weighted, undirected network of 650 characters and 2976 scene
#> co-appearance ties
#> # A tibble: 650 x 1
#>   name
#>   <chr>
#> 1 Actor
#> 2 Alan
#> 3 Andrea
#> 4 Angela
#> 5 Aunt Iris
#> 6 Aunt Lillian
#> # i 644 more rows
#> # A tibble: 2,976 x 3
#>    from    to weight
#>   <int> <int>  <dbl>
#> 1     8     9      3
#> 2     4    10      1
#> 3     8    12      1
#> 4     9    12      1
#> 5     2    14      1
#> 6     3    14      1
#> # i 2,970 more rows

References

McNulty, K. (2020). Network analysis of Friends scripts..