As of June 3, 2009:
Currently sending out personalized reminders (second round) to those who never responded to
the original invitations participated in the mega-anlaysis project
Plans for the upcoming weeks:
Sending out personalized reminders to scholars who expressed their interest in the project but
still are searching for the data
April 10, 2009
Over the past few months, we have received 63 datasets from scholars all around the world. We
have already started merging the data, but it’s probably going to be some time before we have a
clean consolidated database. For now, I am attaching a summary of what we currently have in
our database. The attached file contains information on what variables are included in each of
the sixty-three datasets we have received so far.
If you might be interested in taking on a leading role in developing a paper stemming from the
mega-analytic database, please take a look at the attached file. The summary should give you
an idea about what kind of data we are getting so far and what variables are represented in
multiple datasets in our database, i.e. are based on enough data to lead to a good publication.
The process of data collection goes slower than expected, but it seems like we will eventually
have a fairly large mega-analytic dataset that will yield many good and important publications.
As of today, we have contacted 510 authors of 816 publications. We could not find current
contacts for another 224 authors on our list. We have received responses from 214 scholars. Of
those, fifty author teams (about 80 individuals, most publications in our database were co-
authored, some contributed multiple datasets stemming from different research project, sixty-
three datasets total) contributed their data. Eighty-six scholars expressed their interest in the
project, but still have not had a chance to locate and share their datasets. Thirty-seven contacted
scholars said they could not to participate for various reasons (data no longer available, no
time, not interested, etc). Other responses included automated out of office replies,
suggestions to contact other co-authors who may the data, notes that the person retired or, in a
few unfortunate cases, died, etc.
Here are the steps we are planning to take within a few weeks:
1. Send personalized reminders to the scholars who expressed their interest in the project
but have not shared their data yet (87 people).
2. Re-send personalized invitations to those whose contacts appear valid but who never
replied to our first invitation.
3. Run another search for contact of scholars whose contacts we could not find the first
time, or whose contacts turned out outdated and send invitations to the new names on the list.
If you have any comments and suggestion, they would be greatly appreciated.
Currently sending out personalized reminders (second round) to those who never responded to
the original invitations participated in the mega-anlaysis project
Plans for the upcoming weeks:
Sending out personalized reminders to scholars who expressed their interest in the project but
still are searching for the data
April 10, 2009
Over the past few months, we have received 63 datasets from scholars all around the world. We
have already started merging the data, but it’s probably going to be some time before we have a
clean consolidated database. For now, I am attaching a summary of what we currently have in
our database. The attached file contains information on what variables are included in each of
the sixty-three datasets we have received so far.
If you might be interested in taking on a leading role in developing a paper stemming from the
mega-analytic database, please take a look at the attached file. The summary should give you
an idea about what kind of data we are getting so far and what variables are represented in
multiple datasets in our database, i.e. are based on enough data to lead to a good publication.
The process of data collection goes slower than expected, but it seems like we will eventually
have a fairly large mega-analytic dataset that will yield many good and important publications.
As of today, we have contacted 510 authors of 816 publications. We could not find current
contacts for another 224 authors on our list. We have received responses from 214 scholars. Of
those, fifty author teams (about 80 individuals, most publications in our database were co-
authored, some contributed multiple datasets stemming from different research project, sixty-
three datasets total) contributed their data. Eighty-six scholars expressed their interest in the
project, but still have not had a chance to locate and share their datasets. Thirty-seven contacted
scholars said they could not to participate for various reasons (data no longer available, no
time, not interested, etc). Other responses included automated out of office replies,
suggestions to contact other co-authors who may the data, notes that the person retired or, in a
few unfortunate cases, died, etc.
Here are the steps we are planning to take within a few weeks:
1. Send personalized reminders to the scholars who expressed their interest in the project
but have not shared their data yet (87 people).
2. Re-send personalized invitations to those whose contacts appear valid but who never
replied to our first invitation.
3. Run another search for contact of scholars whose contacts we could not find the first
time, or whose contacts turned out outdated and send invitations to the new names on the list.
If you have any comments and suggestion, they would be greatly appreciated.
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Mega-Analysis of Culture: Synergy of Network
