vote_history: Vote history
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vote_history

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Vote history

Description

A dataset containing details on the vote history for each season

Usage

vote_history

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

version: Country code for the version of the show
version_season: Version season key
season: The season number
episode: Episode number
day: Day the tribal council took place
tribe_status: The status of the tribe e.g. original, swapped, merged, etc. See details for more
tribe: Tribe name
castaway: Name of the castaway
immunity: Type of immunity held by the castaway at the time of the vote e.g. individual, hidden (see details for hidden immunity data)
vote: The castaway for which the vote was cast
vote_event: Extra details on the vote e.g. Won or lost the fire challenge, played an extra vote, etc
vote_event_outcome: The outcome of the vote event
split_vote: If there was a decision to split the vote this records who the vote was split with. Helps to identify successful boots
nullified: Was the vote nullified by a hidden immunity idol? Logical
tie: If the set of votes resulted in a tie. Logical
voted_out: The castaway who was voted out
order: Boot order. Order in which castaway was voted out e.g. 5 is the 5th person voted of the island
vote_order: In the case of ties this indicates the order the votes took place
castaway_id: ID of the castaway (primary key). Consistent across seasons and name changes e.g. Amber Brkich / Amber Mariano. The first two letters reference the country of the version played e.g. US, AU.
vote_id: ID of the castaway voted for
voted_out_id: ID of the castaway voted_out
sog_id: Stage of game ID for joining to boot_mapping and challenge_results
challenge_id: Primary key to the challenge_description data set which contains features of the challenge. The helps map the immunity challenge which result in the tribal.

Details

This data frame contains a complete history of votes cast across all seasons of Survivor. While there are consistent events across the seasons there are some unique events such as the 'mutiny' in Survivor: Cook Islands (season 13) or the 'Outcasts' in Survivor: Pearl Islands (season 7). For maintaining a standard, whenever there has been a change in tribe for the castaways it has been recorded as swapped. swapped is used as the term since 'the tribe swap' is a typical recurring milestone in each season of Survivor. Subsequent changes are recorded with a trailing digit e.g. swapped2. This includes absorbed tribes e.g. Stephanie was 'absorbed' in Survivor: Palau (season 10) and when 3 tribes are reduced to 2. These cases are still considered 'swapped' to indicate a change in tribe status.

Some events result in a castaway attending tribal but not voting. These are recorded as

Win: The castaway won the fire challenge
Lose: The castaway lost the fire challenge
None: The castaway did not cast a vote. This may be due to a vote steal or some other means
Immune: The castaway did not vote but were immune from the vote

Where a castaway has immunity == 'hidden' this means that player is protected by a hidden immunity idol. It may not necessarily mean they played the idol, the idol may have been played for them. While the nullified votes data is complete the immunity data does not include those who had immunity but did not receive a vote. This is a TODO.

In the case where the 'steal a vote' advantage was played, there is a second row for the castaway that stole the vote. The castaway who had their vote stolen are is recorded as None.

Many castaways have been medically evacuated, quit or left the game for some other reason. In these cases where no votes were cast there is a skip in the order variable. Since no votes were cast there is nothing to record on this data frame. The correct order in which castaways departed the island is recorded on castaways.

In the case of a tie, voted_out is recorded as tie to indicate no one was voted off the island in that instance. The re-vote is recorded with vote_order = 2 to indicate this is the second round of voting. In the case of a second tie voted_out is recorded as tie2. The third step is either a draw of rocks, fire challenge or countback (in the early days of survivor). In these cases vote is recorded as the colour of the rock drawn, result of the fire challenge or 'countback'.

Source

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_(American_TV_series)

Examples

# The number of times Tony voted for each castaway in Survivor: Winners at War
library(dplyr)
vote_history %>%
  filter(
    season == 40,
    castaway == "Tony"
  ) %>%
  count(vote)

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