Data-Set: Movie actors network Description: This data set (see Box 2.2 on page 81 of the book) contains the co-starring network studied for the first time by Duncan Watts and Steven Strogratz in their seminal paper "Collective dynamics of small-world networks". Each node is an actor, and a link between two actors exists if they have acted togeter in at least one movie. Author: Duncan Watts, Steven Strogatz Reference: D. Watts, S. Strogatz, "Collective behaviour of small-world networks", Nature 393, 440-442 (1998) Additional-Info: This data set is part of the accompanying material of the book "Complex Networks: Principles, Methods and Applications", V. Latora, V. Nicosia, G. Russo, Cambridge University Press (2017) ISBN: 9781107103184 If you use the data set, please add a reference to the book above. Book-Reference: Chapter 2, Box 2.2 Filename: movie_actors.net Type: edge_list Nodes: 248243 Edges: 8302734 Directed: no Weighted: no File-Format: "actor_1 actor__2" Filename: movie_actors_names_dists Type: node labels and distances Rows: 248243 File-Format: "node_label: actor_name d0 d1 d2 d3..." - 'node_label' is the label of the node - 'actor_name' is the name of the actor - 'd0', 'd1', 'd2' etc. are the number of nodes at distance 0,1,2, etc. from 'node_label'