florentine_families — Padgett Florentine families

Description

A multiplex network of marriage and business ties among 16 elite families of Renaissance Florence, from the historical data on the rise of the Medici (c. 1400-1434) compiled by J. F. Padgett and collaborators from archival sources. This is the widely used subset of 16 families selected by R. Breiger and P. Pattison from Padgett's larger data set; the version here is the one distributed by M. De Domenico. Nodes are families, and an undirected edge in the marriage layer connects two families linked by a marriage, while an edge in the business layer connects families with recorded financial ties, such as loans, credits and joint partnerships. The marriage layer has 20 edges and the business layer 15; the Pucci family has no ties in either layer.

The network has the following properties:

name and nodeLabel: the family name (abbreviated to at most nine letters, e.g. ACCIAIUOL, TORNABUON).
layer (edges): 1 for marriage alliances, 2 for business ties; the graph property layer_key maps these numbers to layer names.
weight (edges): always 1.

Tags

Social Relationships Multilayer Unweighted

Citation

JF Padgett and CK Ansell, "Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400-1434". American journal of sociology, 1259-1319 (1993). 10.1086/230190 Sci-Hub

Upstream URL OK

https://manliodedomenico.com/data.php

Upstream license

Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL), https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/

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
florentine_families	16	35	4.38	2.57	2.96	4.20	-0.46	0.30	4	0.94	Undirected	Unipartite	name nodeLabel	weight layer	1 KiB	1 KiB	1 KiB	1 KiB

Ridiculograms^*

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