***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** Dear Scott, the igraph library (http://igraph.sourceforge.net/) for use with R has the single command bipartite.projection (http://igraph.sourceforge.net/doc/R/bipartite.projection.html), which will give you the top-projection (you network of legislators) as well as the bottom-projection (your network of interest groups) of your two-mode network. The igraph package itself as well as R also provide a number of import commands for your raw data. Best, Steffen. - Dr. Steffen Blaschke Assistant Professor at the Chair of Organization and Management Faculty of Business, Economics, and Social Sciences University of Hamburg Von-Melle-Park 5 20146 Hamburg, Germany Office: +49 (40) 42838 4676 Cell: +49 (178) 3333625 Weblog: http://lou.econ.uni-hamburg.de Twitter: http://twitter.com/blaschke SSRN Working Papers: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1512471 and http://ssrn.com/abstract=1512498 On Jul 26, 2010, at 11:32 PM, Scott McClurg wrote: > ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** I have two-mode network data (legislators and interest groups, 435 and thousands respectively) that I'm trying to convert into one mode data. Basically, all I'm looking for are the number of common links between legislators where links are defined as donations from the same interest group. We've failed thus far to get this task done in Acess and we do not have the requisite skills to write our own computer code. Has anyone run into a similar problem and how have you solved it? Any advice would be welcome. > > -- > > Scott D. McClurg > Associate Professor of Political Science > PN-L Moderator > Department of Political Science > Southern Illinois University > Mailcode 4501 > Carbondale, IL 62901 > > (e) [log in to unmask] > (p) 618.453.3191 > _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message. _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.