Les Misérables Character Co-occurrence Network
A Literary character co-occurrence (Les Misérables) dataset of 77 nodes and 254 edges, collected by D.E. Knuth. Each record contains directed edges: False, weighted: True, signed: False. This undirected network contains co-occurances of characters in Victor Hugo's novel 'Les Misérables'. A node represents a character and an edge between two nodes shows that these two characters appeared in the same chapter of the the book. The weight of each link indicates how often such a co-appear. Suitable for community detection benchmark, graph algorithm testing.
Cite this dataset at
moreno-lesmis.echo.directory
Analytics
Node size is centrality, colour is community. Hover a node for details; click one to isolate its community.
Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
moreno-lesmis- Authors
- Knuth, Donald Ervin
- Year
- 1993
- Source paper
- The Stanford GraphBase: A Platform for Combinatorial Computing, volume 37
- License
- CC BY-SA 2.0 Germany (as stated by KONECT) (LicenseRef-CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE)
- Records
- 77
- Nodes
- 77
- Edges
- 254
- Nodes are
- character
- Edges are
- co-occurrence
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 1993 (1990s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Provenance
- Originally published at
- http://moreno.ss.uci.edu/data.html#lesmis unverified
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 2.2 KB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@misc{knuth1993,
title = {The Stanford GraphBase: A Platform for Combinatorial Computing, volume 37},
author = {Knuth, Donald Ervin},
year = {1993},
note = {Addison-Wesley Reading, 1993.}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Knuth, D. E. (1993). Les Misérables Character Co-occurrence Network [Data set]. https://moreno-lesmis.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Knuth, Donald Ervin. Les Misérables Character Co-occurrence Network. 1993, moreno-lesmis.echo.directory/.