📚 [Documentation] - Sweep data sections of Seshat papers for supplemental data & code

[edwardchalstrey1]

Section of Documentation

Researcher, Resources

Description of Improvement

E-mail from Pieter:

In all our articles (see the list on our webpage) we have a data section where there are links to all supplemental datasets, for the MSP articles with links to the data buttressing text (hundreds of pages), code, … . Would you be able to do a sweep and include all this material on your page? The Jupyter notebook is there as well. At the moment this material is often deposited on Open Science on the account on whoever is the corresponding author. We obviously need to centralise this, etc.

For example - this OSF repo includes some docs, code and a notebook with plots for "Disentangling the Evolutionary Drivers of Social Complexity in Human History: a Comprehensive Test of Hypotheses"

Benefits of Improvement

Collecting all resources

Additional Context

Related to:

• 116

• 110

• 111

Definition of Done

• [x] The documentation improvement has been developed on a branch.
• [x] A pull request has been created for the new branch to be merged into the dev branch.
  • Can close #111 too
• [x] Structure the table
  • Include no code papers?
  • Include papers which have no code but probably should?
  • Organise by years?
• [x] Reply to Pieter F with the page and explain the state of code, docs, reproducibility and what the API, dataset recreation and the approach Matilda will take to documentation/re-usability of dataset generation and data analysis code will make possible in future vs now. Mention I didn't include the Chinese ones.

[edwardchalstrey1]

• [x] Navigating Polycrisis: Long-Run Socio-Cultural Factors Shape Response to Changing Climate
• [x] Structural-Demographic Analysis of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912) Collapse in China Edit Paper
  • Has code
• [x] Flattening the Curve: Learning the Lessons of World History to Mitigate Societal Crises
• [x] Decline and Fall, Growth and Spread, or Resilience? Approaches to Studying How and Why Societies Change
• [x] Multipath Forecasting: The Aftermath of the 2020 American Crisis
• [ ] 全球史的宏观显微镜：Seshat全球史数据辟的 方法论梳理•. •…「英？皮耶特•花朗索瓦等 (Global History Review, Vol 19)
• [ ] Dacura 54 ——历史研究的数据收笨和知识提取新途径⋯……〔美〕彼得。比勒金等 (Global History Review, Vol 19)
• [x] Disentangling the Evolutionary Drivers of Social Complexity: A Comprehensive Test of Hypotheses
  • Has code
• [x] Explaining the Rise of Moralizing Religions: A Test of Competing Hypotheses Using the Seshat Databank
  • Has code
• [x] Testing the Big Gods Hypothesis with Global Historical Data: A Review and ‘Retake’
  • Has code
• [x] Big Gods and Big Science: Further Reflections on Theory, Data, and Analysis
• [x] Retrodicting the Rise, Spread, and Fall of Large-scale States in the Old World
  • Has code
• [x] Rise of the war machines: Charting the evolution of military technologies from the Neolithic to the Industrial Revolution
  • Has code
• [x] An integrative approach to estimating productivity in past societies using Seshat: Global History Databank
  • Has code
• [x] A New Era in the Study of Global History is Born but it Needs to be Nurtured
• [x] An Introduction to Seshat: Global History Databank
• [x] Duration of agriculture and distance from the steppe predict the evolution of large-scale human societies in Afro-Eurasia
  • Has code
• [x] The Equinox2020 Seshat Data Release
• [x] A History of Possible Futures: Multipath Forecasting of Social Breakdown, Recovery, and Resilience
• [x] Fitting Dynamic Regression Models to Seshat Data
  • Has code
• [x] Translating Knowledge about Past Societies into Seshat Data
• [x] A Systematic Assessment of ‘Axial Age’ Proposals Using Global Comparative Historical Evidence
• [x] Quantitative Historical Analysis Uncovers a Single Dimension of Complexity That Structures Global Variation in Human Social Organization
  • This is a surprising one for the code to be missing for - it's the Social Complexity dataset so presumably this is fixed by Matilda's code being available
• [x] Reply to Tosh et al.: Quantitative analyses of cultural evolution require engagement with historical and archaeological research
• [x] An Overview of the Numismatic Evidence from Imperial Roman Africa
• [x] Dacura: A new solution to data harvesting and knowledge extraction for the historical sciences
• [x] Empirical Regularities across Time, Space, and Culture: A Critical Review of Comparative Methods in Ancient Historical Research
• [x] Grand challenges for the study of cultural evolution
• [x] Mapping the Spread of Mounted Warfare
• [x] Turning the Inside Out: the fragmentation of Roman rule in Gaul and Africa during the third century A.D.
• [x] Religion promotes a love for thy neighbor. But how big is the neighbourhood?
• [x] The Nature of Religious Diversity: A Cultural Ecosystem Approach
• [x] A Macroscope for Global History: Seshat Global History Databank, a Methodological Overview
• [x] Building the Seshat Ontology for a Global History Databank
• [x] Cultural group selection is plausible, but the predictions of its hypotheses should be tested with real-world data
• [x] Evolution of Institutions and Organizations
• [x] The Role of Ritual in the Evolution of Social Complexity: Five Predictions and a Drum Roll
• [x] Seshat: The Global History Databank
• [x] Agricultural Productivity in Past Societies: Toward an Empirically Informed Model for Testing Cultural Evolutionary Hypotheses
• [x] Statistical universals reveal the structures and functions of human music
• [x] Broad supernatural punishment but not moralizing high gods precede the evolution of political complexity in Austronesia
• [x] A Life-Cycle Model of Human Social Groups Produces a U-Shaped Distribution in Group Size
• [x] Religion and Morality
• [x] Cultural Evolution and Cliodynamics
• [x] The SESHAT Databank Project: the 2014 Report
• [x] The Ties that Bind Us: Ritual, fusion, and identification
• [x] Brothers in Arms: Libyan revolutionaries bond like Family
• [x] War, Space, and the Evolution of Old World Complex Societies
• [x] The West and the Rest: The Science of the Great Divergence
• [x] Religion and Empire in the Axial Age
• [x] A Historical Database of Sociocultural Evolution
• [x] Toward Cliodynamics – an Analytical, Predictive Science of History
• [x] Arise ‘cliodynamics.’