quakers — Early Quaker social network (17th century)

Description

Social network of 119 early members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in seventeenth-century Britain and its colonies, a subset of the data of the Six Degrees of Francis Bacon (SDFB) project, published with the Programming Historian tutorial "Exploring and Analyzing Network Data with Python" by J. R. Ladd, J. Otis, C. N. Warren and S. Weingart. SDFB reconstructs the social network of early modern Britain (1500-1700) from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB): relationships are first inferred statistically from the co-occurrence of names in the ODNB biographies, and then curated by contributors. Nodes are persons, and an undirected edge indicates a relationship (of an unspecified kind) between two persons in the SDFB data.

The nodes have the following properties:

name: the name of the person (e.g. "William Penn", "George Fox").
historical_significance: a short description of the person (e.g. "religious writer", "Quaker preacher").
gender: "male" or "female", as given in the source.
birth and death: the years of birth and death.
sdfb_id: the identifier of the person in the SDFB data.¹

Description obtained in part from the ICON project. ↩

Tags

Social Offline Unweighted Metadata

Citation

J. R. Ladd, J. Otis, C. N. Warren, S. Weingart, "Exploring and analyzing network data with Python." Programming Historian 6 (2017) 10.46430/phen0064 Sci-Hub
C. N. Warren, D. Shore, J. Otis, L. Wang, M. Finegold, C. Shalizi, "Six Degrees of Francis Bacon: a statistical method for reconstructing large historical social networks." Digital Humanities Quarterly 10(3) (2016) digitalhumanities.org

Upstream URL OK

https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/exploring-and-analyzing-network-data-with-python
https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051835/http://6dfb.tumblr.com/post/164795439991/six-degrees-of-pennsylvania-william-penn-and

Upstream license

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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
quakers	119	174	2.92	3.45	5.55	10.14	-0.03	0.17	8	0.81	Undirected	Unipartite	name historical_significance gender birth death sdfb_id		4 KiB	5 KiB	4 KiB	4 KiB