Moreno Sampson Monastery Network
A Monastery interpersonal relations survey dataset of 18 nodes and 189 edges, collected by S.F. Sampson. Each record contains directed edges: True, weighted: True, signed: True. This directed network contains ratings between monks related to a crisis in a cloister (or monastery) in New English (USA) which lead to a departure of several of the monks. This dataset aggregates several available ratings ((dis)esteem, (dis)liking, positive/negative influence, praise/blame) into o. Suitable for signed network analysis, community detection, balance theory.
Cite this dataset at
moreno-sampson.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-sampson- Authors
- Breiger, Ronald L; Boorman, Scott A; Arabie, Phipps
- Year
- 1975
- Source paper
- An algorithm for clustering relational data with applications to social network analysis and comparison with multidimensional scaling
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1016/0022-2496(75)90028-0
- License
- CC BY-SA 2.0 Germany (as stated by KONECT) (LicenseRef-CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE)
- Records
- 18
- Nodes
- 18
- Edges
- 189 (directed)
- Nodes are
- monk
- Edges are
- rating
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 1969 (Before 1990)
- Tasks
- Edge sign prediction (binary;
sign) inferred, Recommendation (ranking) inferred
From the graph: link prediction, community detection - Region
- United States · North America (inferred: named in the description)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- http://moreno.ss.uci.edu/data.html#sampson unverified
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 2.2 KB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
An algorithm for clustering relational data with applications to social network analysis and comparison with multidimensional scaling
R. Breiger, S. Boorman, P. Arabie
1975
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Citation data from Semantic Scholar, retrieved 2026-10-19.
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}
}
@article{Breiger_1975,
title = {An algorithm for clustering relational data with applications to social network analysis and comparison with multidimensional scaling},
volume = {12},
issn = {0022-2496},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0022-2496(75)90028-0},
doi = {10.1016/0022-2496(75)90028-0},
number = {3},
journal = {Journal of Mathematical Psychology},
publisher = {Elsevier BV},
author = {Breiger, Ronald L and Boorman, Scott A and Arabie, Phipps},
year = {1975},
month = Aug,
pages = {328–383}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Breiger, R. L., Boorman, S. A., & Arabie, P. (1975). Moreno Sampson Monastery Network [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-2496(75)90028-0
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Breiger, Ronald L, et al. Moreno Sampson Monastery Network. 1975, doi.org/10.1016/0022-2496(75)90028-0.