Data sets

A variety of data sets are included in the package. Here are their links/citations:

Sports

Human hierarchies

  • CS and Business Departments A. Clauset, S. Arbesman, and D. B. Larremore, Systematic inequality and hierarchy in faculty hiring networks. Science Advances 1, e1400005 (2015). CC BY-NC 4.0 License.

Animal hierarchies

The following data sets are part of DomArchive under the CC BY 4.0 license.

  • DomArchive Data compliation of all of the animal data sets (R package). DomArchive. Accessed: 2023-10-07.

  • Vervet monkeys C. Vilette, T. Bonnell, P. Henzi, and L. Barrett, Comparing dominance hierarchy methods using a data-splitting approach with real-world data. Behavioral Ecology 31, 1379–1390 (2020).

  • Dogs M. J. Silk, M. A. Cant, S. Cafazzo, E. Natoli, and R. A. McDonald, Elevated aggression is associated with uncertainty in a network of dog dominance interactions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286, 20190536 (2019).

  • Baboons M. Franz, E. McLean, J. Tung, J. Altmann, and S. C. Alberts, Self-organizing dominance hierarchies in a wild primate population. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282, 20151512 (2015).

  • Sparrows D. J. Watt, Relationship of plumage variability, size and sex to social dominance in Harris’ sparrows. Animal Behaviour 34, 16–27 (1986).

  • Mice C. M. Williamson, B. Franks, and J. P. Curley, Mouse social network dynamics and community structure are associated with plasticity-related brain gene expression. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 10, 152 (2016).

  • Hyenas E. D. Strauss and K. E. Holekamp, Social alliances improve rank and fitness in convention-based societies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, 8919–8924 (2019).

Other data sets

Note that the following data sets are also analyzed in the paper but are not provided here for licensing reasons:

  • Scrabble Scrabble tournament records. Cross-Tables Website. Accessed: 2023-10-07.

  • Basketball N. Lauga, NBA games data. Kaggle Dataset. Accessed: 2023-10-07.

  • Video games Super Smash Bros. Melee head to head records. Rankings Website. Accessed: 2023-10-07.

  • Friends J. R. Udry, P. S. Bearman, and K. M. Harris, National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (1997).