谁是《权力的游戏》真正的主角？数据分析告诉你
Statistical analysis has revealed Game of Thrones' true 'main' character
There's a zillion characters in Game of Thrones, even after a bunch of them have been brutally bumped off. But among the likes of Tyrion, Bran, Dany, and pals, who's really the main character? A team of mathematicians used a power far beyond Melisandre's shadow magics to find out: the power of cold hard graphs.
尽管有些人已经被残忍地干掉了,《权力的游戏》里的人物还是多得难以计数.但是在提利昂、布兰、丹妮以及其他人物中,谁才是真正的主角呢？一个数学家团队施展魔力,寻找答案,这个魔力可比梅丽珊卓的阴影魔法还强大——那就是客观实在的图表.
Macalester College associate professor of mathematics Andrew J. Beveridge and undergraduate student Jie Shan approached George R. R. Martin's book series with a set of scientific approaches dubbed "Network Science." It uses graph theory, economics, math, sociology, and a plethora of other disciplines to map out a vast, interconnected network between the characters that spread all over Westeros and Essos.
麦卡利斯特学院数学系副教授安德鲁•J•贝弗里奇和本科生单杰用一套名为"网络科学"的方法分析了乔治•R•R•马丁的这一系列书籍.这套方法运用了图论、经济学、数学、社会学和其它许多学科的知识,描绘了一幅遍及维斯特洛和厄索斯的巨大人物关系网.
Using the third book in Martin's saga, A Storm of Swords, and Shan created a huge character network, linking characters every time they appeared within 15 words of each other, weighted on whether or not said characters were in the same scene together. Nearly a thousand pages later, they had a map:
根据马丁这一传奇巨作的第三卷《冰雨的风暴》,贝弗里奇和单杰制作了一幅巨大的人物关系网.只要两个人物出现的间隔在15个词之内,就把他们连在一起,看看他们是不是出现在同一个场景.
Unsurprisingly, the network spread the influence of characters pretty much where they were based in the books—Daenerys, isolated off in the East, Sansa and Tyrion down in the south in Kings Landing (among the likes of Cersei, Jamie, and Tywin), Jon Snow far to the north, and the then-alive Catelyn and Robb in the Western reaches of the Riverlands.
