Shiny Seshat is a scrubbed derivative of the Seshat: Global History Databank featuring:
- Imputation of missing values via the DataWig deep neural network
- Numeric, temporally-resolved data points
- Corrections of many human errors and typographical mistakes
- And more!
The program that scrubs the original Seshat datbank into Shiny Seshat is written in Python 3. If you wish to run it, first install these dependencies:
pip install numpy pandas datawig statsmodels hyperopt utm dill tqdm sklearn
The process of fetching the original databank is automated. To download and begin scrubbing, simply run:
python scrub.py
If you wish to use Shiny Seshat in your work, please cite the following:
- Miranda, L. & Freeman, J. (2020). The two types of society: Computationally revealing recurrent social formations and their evolutionary trajectories. PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232609
Shiny Seshat is a derivative work employing data from the Seshat Databank (seshatdatabank.info) under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (CC By-NC SA) licensing.
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Whitehouse, H., P. François, P.E. Savage, […] P. Turchin. “Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history.” Nature. http://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1043-4.
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Turchin, P., T. E. Currie, H. Whitehouse, P. François, K. Feeney, […] C. Spencer. 2017. “Quantitative historical analysis uncovers a single dimension of complexity that structures global variation in human social organization.” PNAS. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/12/20/1708800115.full.
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Turchin, P. 2018. “Fitting Dynamic Regression Models to Seshat Data.” Cliodynamics 9(1): 25-58. https://doi.org/10.21237/C7clio9137696.
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Turchin, P., R. Brennan, T. E. Currie, K. Feeney, P. François, […] H. Whitehouse. 2015. “Seshat: The Global History Databank.” Cliodynamics 6(1): 77–107. https://doi.org/10.21237/C7clio6127917.
The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official positions, either expressed or implied, of the Seshat Databank, its collaborative scholarly community, or the Evolution Institute.