About the Project

The New Pope is an independent data science initiative analyzing the papal conclave using social network analysis, R programming, and public church data.

This site was created by richirikken using open tools like Gephi, GEXF, and GitHub Pages.

Scientific Use File

A complete scientific use file with full coding, detailed documentation, and data has been made available on Zenodo for reproducibility and further research. You can find the current dataset and metadata here.

To cite this dataset: Heidler, R. (2025). The New Pope: Data Science Analysis of the 2025 Papal Conclave [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15383307