bipartite clustering coefficients
What does this mean?
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- Feb 2023
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degree—thenumber of texts in which a name appears—and strength—the number of timesa name appears.
How do these different values convey different meanings in terms of historical argument?
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power law
What's that?
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degree values
What's a degree value?
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4,679 nodes and 113,862 edges
I would like to hear more about what nodes and edges mean not mathematically but analytically, like in terms of the historical data.
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to better understand the interlocking motivations that underlie text creation, including patronage, social and cultural aspiration, anxieties of influence, and socia
I appreciate how clearly the author sets out the aim.
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density, degree, strength, betweenness
What are these? What meaning do they have mathematically but also in terms of the historical arguments we can make from them besides the fact of their existence (when we put together the data in a certain way)?
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For Drake, as for many writers of dedications, the contemporaryand the biblical exist sidebyside.
This has been a big theme in theology/history courses I've taken on the Protestant and Catholic Reformations.
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Since he is putting forth a new utopian text, it makes sense that Hartlibwould want to cite these two men as his “pattern,” making this a reference toboth the authors and their books simultaneously.
Seems similar to the current practice in referencing "comps" in query letters to agents asking if they want to read your novel manuscript (e.g. This book is The Golden Girls meets Eat, Pray, Love).
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early modern book history by constructing networks of all the namesthat appear in dedications, not just those of authors, printers, and patrons
Reminds me of the book Africans in Colonial Mexico where the author examines marriage records for evidence of who the couple selects as their witness as a way of getting at identity formation. To whom a book is dedicated seems peripheral but might provide similar insights.
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etwork metrics (centrality, density, clustering coefficients)
Hopefully they explain what these are!
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