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charnet — Character encounter networks of books (CharNet, 2017)

Description

Networks of encounters among the characters of twelve books of different genres (fiction, legendary texts, biographies), from the CharNet project of A. J. Holanda and collaborators. Nodes are characters (sometimes a group of people acting as a character, such as "the Thessalians"), and an undirected edge connects two characters who meet in the book, i.e., who take part together in at least one encounter; edges are weighted by the number of encounters in which both take part. The encounters were annotated manually, chapter by chapter, as groups of characters who interact in a part of the book, following the format of the character data of D. E. Knuth's Stanford GraphBase, from which the data for two of the books are taken. Characters listed in a book's data file but without any encounter appear as isolated nodes. The networks are:

  • acts: the Acts of the Apostles (Bible).
  • luke: the Gospel of Luke (Bible).
  • apollonius: "The Life of Apollonius of Tyana", by Flavius Philostratus (English translation by F. C. Conybeare).
  • pythagoras: "The Life of Pythagoras", by Iamblichus.
  • arthur: "The Winter King" (first volume of "The Warlord Chronicles"), by Bernard Cornwell.
  • hobbit: "The Hobbit", by J. R. R. Tolkien.
  • tolkien: "J. R. R. Tolkien", a biography by Michael White.
  • newton: "Isaac Newton", a biography by James Gleick.
  • hawking: a biography of Stephen Hawking ("The Theory of Everything").
  • dick: "A vida de Philip K. Dick" (a biography of Philip K. Dick), by Anthony Peake.
  • david: "David Copperfield", by Charles Dickens (from the Stanford GraphBase).
  • huck: "Huckleberry Finn", by Mark Twain (from the Stanford GraphBase).

The networks have the following properties:

  • Nodes: code, the two-letter label of the character in the source files; name, its name or description (e.g. "Gandalf", "Aunt Polly, aunt who raises TS").
  • Edges: weight, the number of encounters in which both characters take part.1

  1. Description obtained in part from the ICON project. ↩

Tags
Social Fictional Weighted Metadata
Citation
  • A. J. Holanda, M. Matias, S. M. S. P. Ferreira, G. M. L. Benevides, O. Kinouchi, "Character networks and book genre classification." International Journal of Modern Physics C 30(08), 1950058 (2019) 10.1142/S012918311950058X Sci-Hub
  • D. E. Knuth, "The Stanford GraphBase: A Platform for Combinatorial Computing." Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA (1993) www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu
Upstream URL OK
https://ajholanda.github.io/charnet/
Upstream license
GNU General Public License v2.0 (GPL-2.0), https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Networks
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Column legend
$\left<k\right>$
Mean degree
$\sigma_k$
Standard deviation of the degrees
$\lambda_h$
Largest eigenvalue of the Hashimoto (non-backtracking) matrix
$\tau$
Random walk mixing time
$r$
Degree assortativity
$c$
Global clustering coefficient
$\oslash$
(Pseudo-) diameter
$S$
Relative size of the largest component
NPs
Node properties
EPs
Edge properties
Name Nodes Edges $\left<k\right>$ $\sigma_k$ $\lambda_h$ $\tau$ $r$ $c$ $\oslash$ $S$ Kind Mode NPs EPs gt GraphML GML csv
acts 76 160 4.21 5.14 6.62 26.40 -0.30 0.32 6 0.96 Undirected Unipartite code name weight 2 KiB 3 KiB 2 KiB 2 KiB
luke 76 203 5.34 8.10 11.49 6.11 -0.32 0.34 4 1.00 Undirected Unipartite code name weight 2 KiB 3 KiB 3 KiB 3 KiB
apollonius 95 138 2.91 7.37 5.37 25.66 -0.41 0.07 5 0.89 Undirected Unipartite code name weight 3 KiB 4 KiB 3 KiB 3 KiB
pythagoras 41 31 1.51 2.18 1.00 0.03 -0.38 0.03 2 0.39 Undirected Unipartite code name weight 2 KiB 2 KiB 2 KiB 2 KiB
arthur 77 141 3.66 5.98 6.91 4.02 -0.39 0.14 5 0.96 Undirected Unipartite code name weight 2 KiB 3 KiB 2 KiB 2 KiB
hobbit 41 160 7.80 7.43 13.87 6.26 -0.15 0.75 6 1.00 Undirected Unipartite code name weight 2 KiB 2 KiB 2 KiB 2 KiB
tolkien 94 218 4.64 8.86 8.78 6.32 -0.34 0.15 4 1.00 Undirected Unipartite code name weight 3 KiB 4 KiB 3 KiB 3 KiB
newton 33 44 2.67 3.29 3.07 4.61 -0.34 0.14 5 0.91 Undirected Unipartite code name weight 2 KiB 2 KiB 2 KiB 2 KiB
hawking 249 446 3.58 11.51 10.89 8.46 -0.40 0.05 6 0.96 Undirected Unipartite code name weight 4 KiB 6 KiB 6 KiB 5 KiB
dick 115 189 3.29 7.27 6.47 7.94 -0.30 0.09 5 0.90 Undirected Unipartite code name weight 2 KiB 4 KiB 3 KiB 3 KiB
david 87 406 9.33 10.49 15.43 3.12 -0.26 0.35 3 1.00 Undirected Unipartite code name weight 4 KiB 5 KiB 4 KiB 4 KiB
huck 74 301 8.14 7.34 11.99 8.18 -0.17 0.49 4 0.93 Undirected Unipartite code name weight 3 KiB 4 KiB 4 KiB 4 KiB