Work with the Doges/Dogaresse Dataset

Work with data on Venetian doges and dogaresse and the noble families of the Republic of Venice, and use it for social network analysis, as used in Merelo (2022) .

dogesR

Also available from CRAN as dogesr Package (with data) to work with the dogi and dogaresse of the Venetian republic and their relatives. Main intention is to analyze social networks resulting from marriages and other interactions, but all kind of useful data is (and will be) included in the package.

Install

Install released versions from CRAN as usual, or development version from here

library(devtools)
install_github("JJ/dogesr")

Reference

It grew from the data used in this paper; please cite it if you are using this module:

@misc{https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2209.07334,
  doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2209.07334},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.07334},
  author = {Merelo-Guervós, J. J.},
  keywords = {Social and Information Networks (cs.SI), Computers and Society (cs.CY), FOS: Computer and information sciences, FOS: Computer and information sciences},
  title = {What is a good doge? Analyzing the patrician social network of the Republic of Venice},
  publisher = {arXiv},
  year = {2022},
  copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International}
}

You can retrieve this reference from the bibliography file along with other references used in examples.

Examples

This package includes a few vignettes. Once installed, write vignette("dogesr") to check what's available. Also

• vignette("doges-family-types") for how to use the family types data set
• vignette("doges-terms") to analyze the amount of time the doges lived/ruled using data provided in this package.
• vignette("doges-social-network") to get the marriage social network of doges and parents, and make some initial exploration.
• vignette("doges-split-social-network") to get the marriage social network of doges and parents for slices of time, from and to specific doges; this one shows how to get the social network before and after the Serrata.
• vignette("counting-doge-families") to work with a table of the families doges belonged to and how many times they actually "made doge".
• vignette("doge-types") to show the timeline of the different types of families that managed to "make doge".

Work with data

Check available datasets with data(package="dogesr") once it has been loaded.

Data in its original format is stored in the data-raw directory. If you change that data anyhow, type make to rebuild the R data files (contained in the data ) directory.

Any further change (columns and suchlike) will also require modification of the documentation at the man directory.

Papers

Please check the reports subdirectory for published papers that use this library, and their sources, which is released under a free license.

LICENSE

The contents of this repository are (c) JJ Merelo, 2022, 2023, and are released under the GPL 3 license. Please check the LICENSE for details.