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Summary
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General note
For more information regarding Six Degrees of Francis Bacon see: http://www.sixdegreesoffrancisbacon.com/about
Publications
For technical details about named-entity recognition and statistical inference from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, see Warren, Christopher, Daniel Shore, Jessica Otis, Lawrence Wang, Mike Finegold, and Cosma Shalizi, "Six Degrees of Francis Bacon: A Statistical Method for Reconstructing Large Historical Social Networks", Digital Humanities Quarterly 10.3, URL: http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/10/3/000244/000244.html.
Documentation note
The Six Degrees of Francis Bacon dataset consists of five tables, included here as CSV files. The contents of these files are as follows: SDFB_people contains a record for every historical person cataloged in Six Degrees, including a unique 8-digit ID number for each individual and, where available, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ID numbers for the same. SDFB_relationships contains a record for every social relation in Six Degrees. The ID numbers in person1_index and person2_index refer back to the unique IDs in the SDFB_people table. Each relationship also has its own unique 9-digit ID. SDFB_relationship_types contains information on the type and category assigned to particular relationships. Since a relationship can have more than one type, the same relationship (referred to in this table by its unique ID from the SDFB_relationships table) can appear in multiple records. SDFB_groups contains a record for each group cataloged in Six Degrees. Every group has a unique ID. SDFB_group_assignments contains a record for every group membership in Six Degrees. Each row consists of a person ID from SDFB_people and a group ID from SDFB_groups to signify that a person was a member of that group.
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director: Warren, Christopher N.
co-principal investigator: Otis, Jessica
co-principal investigator: Shore, Daniel
co-principal investigator: Weingart, Scott B.
postdoctoral research fellow: Ladd, John
network inference programmer: Finegold, Michael
network inference programmer: Shalizi, Cosma
network inference programmer: Wang, Lawrence
associated with: Carnegie-Mellon University
associated with: Georgetown University