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Generation And Analysis Of A Social Network: Hamlet, Preston Evans
Generation And Analysis Of A Social Network: Hamlet, Preston Evans
Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
This paper examines the generation and analysis of a social network produced from Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. An XML file of Hamlet was parsed to extract the characters within the play and also identify when the characters appeared within the same scene. After parsing the speakers and the connections between characters, a network graph was generated that displayed all the characters in Hamlet, represented by nodes, and edges that represented the connections between characters as measured by their scene co-appearance. The results of the network graph were then compared to a published social network for Hamlet created by hand. The two …