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).