hollywood_golden_age — Golden Age of Hollywood actor collaborations (1909-2009)

Description

Collaborations among 55 actors representative of the Golden Age of Hollywood (1930-1959), compiled by A. Clauset from the full text of the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), downloaded in September 2011. The actors are those listed on the Wikipedia page "Classical Hollywood cinema" at that time (not a scientific selection). Each network is the directed actor-actor projection of the underlying actor-movie network, aggregated over decades from 1909 to 2009.

A directed edge from actor A to actor B exists if both appear in the billing of the same movie, and B has an equal or better (smaller) billing position than A; actors without a listed billing position are assumed to have the lowest rank. If only one of the 55 actors appears in a movie, a self-loop is added if the actor had the first billing position. Archive footage, unconfirmed and suspended entries, TV and video movies, and television series were excluded. Only movies released strictly within each decade are counted (the first period, 1909-1919, is eleven years long).

Two versions are provided:

s0: edges follow the rule above exactly.
s2: billing positions i and j are considered equal if |i-j| <= 2, as a heuristic to account for the fact that the billing order of women and men was not informative of their status during this period, and that small differences in billing may not be meaningful.

The networks have the following properties:

Nodes: name, the actor name, as in IMDb.
Edges: decade, the first year of the decade (1909, 1920, ..., 2000); count, the number of movies in that decade giving rise to the edge. Pairs of actors can be connected by several edges, one for each decade.

Tags

Social Collaboration Weighted Projection Timestamps Multigraph

Citation

D. Taylor, S. A. Myers, A. Clauset, M. A. Porter, P. J. Mucha, "Eigenvector-based centrality measures for temporal networks." Multiscale Modeling & Simulation 15(1), 537-574 (2017) 10.1137/16M1066142 Sci-Hub

Upstream URL OK

https://aaronclauset.github.io/datacode.htm

Networks

Tip: click on a column header to sort the list, or hover over it for a description.

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
s0	55	1,368	24.87	23.65	24.66	1.90	0.10	0.58	3	1.00	Directed	Unipartite	name	decade count	3 KiB	7 KiB	6 KiB	6 KiB
s2	55	1,549	28.16	25.33	24.66	1.77	0.06	0.55	3	1.00	Directed	Unipartite	name	decade count	3 KiB	8 KiB	7 KiB	6 KiB