Researcher

These pages are useful for any researcher contributing to, or consuming, the Seshat data as part of an ongoing Seshat affiliated project.

A great place to start for someone new on the project is the Getting started with Seshat data page.

You may also wish to review the team page, which includes a help section, to see who on the Seshat team can help you with various tasks, as well as the List of Seshat project resources page, which includes links to papers, GitHub repositories, Zenodo datasets, websites, codebooks, and shared drives.

• Getting started with Seshat data
  • Creating a login on the Seshat website
  • Loading Seshat data in Python via the Seshat API
  • Working with the Cliopatria borders dataset
• Seshat datasets
  • Data downloads
  • Data cleaning code
  • Making your dataset available to others
• How to edit the Cliopatria borders dataset
• Seshat projects
• How to use the Seshat website to make and discuss data edits
  • Making and approving data edits
  • Discussing data edits via private comments

See also the API documentation.