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In 2004, Valdis Krebs analyzed patterns of political book purchases at Amazon, looking at Amazon's "also bought" data. [Link] Says Valdis, "Analyzing the patterns of directed links in the network above, we determined the most influential books in each cluster using a social network analysis metric. Broken Government is the most influential blue book, and An Inconvenient Book is the most influential red book, just beating out Power to the People."


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