Big Allied And Dangerous (BAAD) Network

A two-mode network of terrorist organizations and locations of terrorist events as a `network` object.

baad_net

Format

A `network` object with 459 nodes (394 organizations and events in 65 countries) and 394 edges.

Details

The Big Allied And Dangerous (BAAD) network contains active terrorist organizations (meaning they perpetrated at least one attack) between 1998-2005.

Vertex attributes: - `deaths`: Number of fatalities attributable to organization from 1998-2005 - `org_age`: Number of years organization has been active - `state_sponsored`: Whether the organization is state sponsored - `vertex.names`: Name of organizations and locations of events

References

Asal, V. H., & Rethemeyer, R. K. (2008). *The nature of the beast: Terrorist organizational characteristics and organizational lethality*. The Journal of Politics, 70(2), 437–449. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022381608080419.

Examples

sna::gplot(baad_net, gmode = "twomode" )
#> Error in sna::gplot(baad_net, gmode = "twomode"): Error in gplot: no layout function for mode fruchtermanreingold