Data sets

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

Sports

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

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

  • Chess Online chess match data from lichess.com Kaggle Dataset. Accessed: 2023-10-07.

  • Tennis J. Sackmann, ATP tennis data. GitHub Repository. Accessed: 2023-10-07.

  • Soccer M. Jürisoo, International men’s football results from 1872 to 2023. Kaggle Dataset. Accessed: 2023-10-07.

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

Human hierarchies

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

  • 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).

Animal hierarchies

  • 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).