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R data package icus.data

Alan Engel March 29, 2024

Introduction

Between 1972 and 2000, Sun Myung Moon’s organizations sponsored 22 conferences on the unity of science. The aim was to bring science under the moral guidance of Moon’s organizations and their theology. The programs list 2045 participants, including prominent university presidents and Nobel Laureates. This project aims to research these conferences from multiple viewpoints.

This dataset provides several components for researchers who wish to take a deeper look into these conferences.

Datasets

  1. participants Table of 2045 people who have been listed in ICUS programs as speakers, moderators, discussants, advisors and other committee members. The names of participants were curated to be consistent across the entire dataset and compatible with name authorities.

  2. programs Basic data for ICUS conferences from program brochures and the ICUS website (International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences - History 2020)

  3. role_defs Definitions of roles codes in participants

  4. whoswho Table of participants who are listed in Marquis International Who’s Who Editions 40, 50 and 60, which covers the first, middle and final thirds of the ICUS conferences that ran from 1992 to 2000.

  5. nobels Table of Nobel Laureates who participated in ICUS conferences.

  6. icusbib Biblatex entries for 1658 speeches and presentations in ICUS.

  7. viaf Table of persistent identifiers from the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) (viaf20240325?) manually compiled and curated.

Special vignettes

  1. icus program observations Observations from ICUS program brochures including, for example, attendence by Sun Myung Moon and his wife Han Hakja, mention of funding by the Unification Church, detailed coding of program sessions for use in Set entries in _icusbib__.

  2. build-package A vignette detailing the workflow for building this R data package. I am a memory-challenged novice and this is the result of a lot of trial and error.

Installation

You can install the latest version of icus.data from github with:

library(devtools)
devtools::install_github("kijinosu/icus.data")

Examples

Plot participant counts by year

Load libraries.

library(icus.data)
library(tidyverse)

Plot.

ggplot(data = programs) +
  geom_bar(mapping = aes(x = Year, y = Count), stat = "identity") +
  labs(title = "Participant counts by year of conference",
       x = "Year of conference")

Most frequent participants

activeparts <- tp %>%
  count(ID, Surname, Given, Conference, name = "Roles") %>%
  count(ID, Surname, Given, name = "Conferences") %>%
  arrange(desc(Conferences)) %>%
  select(Given, Surname, Conferences) %>%
  mutate(FullName = paste(.$Given, .$Surname, sep = " ")) %>%
  select(FullName, Conferences)

knitr::kable(activeparts[1:20, ], caption = "Most frequent participants")
FullName Conferences
Gerard Radnitzky 18
Nicholas Kurti 17
Richard L. Rubenstein 17
Marcelo Alonso 16
Kenneth Mellanby 16
Alexander King 15
Guido Pincheira 15
Tor Ragnar Gerholm 14
Alvin M. Weinberg 14
Antony Flew 13
Claude A. Villee, Jr. 13
Se Won Yoon 13
Eugene P. Wigner 12
Herman Ole Andreaas Wold 12
Max Jammer 11
Ervin Laszlo 11
Frederick Sontag 11
Eileen V. Barker 10
René Berger 10
John Carew Eccles 10

Most frequent participants

Search on speaker

icusbib[author = "^Oates"]
## [1] J. C. Oates. "The art of suicide". In: _The re-evaluation of
## existing values and the search for absolute values_. The Seventh
## International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences. (Sheraton-Boston
## Hotel, 11. 24, 1978-11. 26, 1978). chairpersonE. P. Wigner and J. C.
## Eccles. With a comment. by I. Soll. International Cultural Foundation.
## Boston, MA, 1978.
## <https://icus.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/ICUS-VII-Program.pdf>
## (visited on 05/12/2023).

See Search examples for more examples.

R packages used for this data package

References

Dowle, Matt, and Arun Srinivasan. 2023. Data.table: Extension of ‘Data.frame‘. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=data.table.

Finak, G, B Mayer, W Fulp, P Obrecht, A Sato, E Chung, D Holman, and R Gottardo. 2018. “DataPackageR: Reproducible Data Preprocessing, Standardization and Sharing Using r/Bioconductor for Collaborative Data Analysis [Version 2; Referees: 2 Approved, 1 Approved with Reservations].” Gates Open Research 2 (31). https://doi.org/10.12688/gatesopenres.12832.2.

International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences - History. 2020. ICUS. https://icus.org/about-2/history/.

McLean, Mathew William. 2014. Straightforward Bibliography Management in r Using the RefManager Package. https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.2036.

———. 2017. “RefManageR: Import and Manage BibTeX and BibLaTeX References in r.” The Journal of Open Source Software. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.00338.

Wickham, Hadley. 2023. Tidyverse: Easily Install and Load the Tidyverse. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=tidyverse.