PG Number

"Collaborative Distance" from Paul Graham

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What is the PG Number?

Inspired by the Erdős Number, the PG Number is a measure of how many degrees of separation there are between a person and Paul Graham.

An edge on the PG Number graph can be any work of collaboration between two individuals. This includes:

• Essays
• Academic Publications
• Co-Founders
• Blog Posts
• Podcasts

Visualize

PG Number & Essay Graph is updated live with this repo.

Contribute

Got some data? Submit a PR!

Please submit data from whole websites, rather than individual web pages.

Getting Data

We got this data using the Web Transpose AI Web Scraper. Here's a tutorial on how to use it: How to Extract Thanked People from a Blog.

Data Format & Reading Data

• nodes.jsonl: Data about People.
• edges.jsonl: Relationships between people.

Example reading JSONL data in Python using Pandas:

import pandas as pd
edges_df = pd.read_json('edges.jsonl', lines=True)

Usage

Data is free to use to build derivative projects! Please link back to this repo.

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Built using data from <a href="https://pgnumber.com">PG Number</a>, available on <a href="https://github.com/mike-gee/pg-number">Github</a>.
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