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Noble Prize Dataset

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Noble Prize Dataset
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JA5QBC
 
Creator Chowdhury, Shovan
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed in several categories by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural, or scientific advances.
The will of the Swedish chemist, engineer and industrialist Alfred Nobel established the five Nobel prizes in 1895.
The prizes in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine were first awarded in 1901.
The prizes are widely regarded as the most prestigious awards available in their respective fields

The dataset titled "complete.csv" contains detailed information on Nobel Prize laureates and their awards, spanning various years and categories. Here's a comprehensive metadata description of this dataset:

General Overview:

Total Entries: 950
Total Columns: 52
Time Frame: The dataset includes Nobel Prize data from the year 1901 to 2019.

Column Details:

Primary Identifiers: awardYear, category, id, name.
Personal Details: knownName, givenName, familyName, fullName, penName, gender.
Birth and Death Information: birth_date, birth_city, birth_country, death_date, death_city, death_country, etc.
Nobel Prize Details: categoryFullName, sortOrder, portion, prizeAmount, prizeAmountAdjusted, dateAwarded, prizeStatus, motivation.
Affiliation and Location: Various fields for affiliation and location details, like birth_continent, birth_countryNow, residence_1, affiliation_1, affiliation_2, etc.
Additional Information: categoryTopMotivation, award_link, laureate_link, and more.
Data Types: The dataset contains a mix of integers (int64), strings (object), and a few date fields.

Data Completeness:

Certain fields, like dateAwarded, penName, death_date, have a significant number of missing values.
The core details like awardYear, category, prizeAmount, and laureate names are mostly complete.
Statistical Overview:

awardYear: Ranges from 1901 to 2019.
sortOrder: Indicates the order of the award, ranging from 1 to 3.
prizeAmount: Ranges widely, with a mean of approximately 3.46 million (currency not specified).
prizeAmountAdjusted: Also varies, with a mean of approximately 6.15 million (currency not specified).
Usage: This dataset is ideal for historical analysis of Nobel Prizes, understanding trends over time, and studying individual laureates' details.

Access: The dataset is provided as a CSV file, suitable for analysis in various data processing software.
 
Subject Other
 
Date 2024-02-08
 
Contributor Chowdhury, Shovan