NAME: Enron Employee Information

TYPE: Observational Study

SIZE: 156 rows, 7 variables

DESCRIPTIVE ABSTRACT:  In the original dataset, th emails were organized into 150 mailboxes labeled by employee name; the emails in a mailbox were not necessarily sent by that person. Additionally, some employees with similar
names were binned into the same mailbox, while others had their messages split among two mailboxes. In
order to circumvent such potential binning errors, we ignored the folder designation and instead extracted
only From, To, and CC fields of each email message. While only one employee may appear in either the
From or To fields (which is different from most current/modern email systems), an arbitrary number may appear
in the CC field. We considered only senders and recipients with email addresses that have an enron.com
domain name. To distinguish between the individuals, we relied on six standard aliases used at Enron (see
Zhou et al. (2007) for instance). The result was 156 Enron employees whose email communication we considered.

The dataset described here contains the names and employment information associated with the 156 individuals whose emails were analyzed.

SOURCE: The dataset is available at https://s3.amazonaws.com/metanautix/enron/enron_
mail_20110402_csv.tgz.

DATASET NAME: Enron Employee Information.csv


COLUMN & VARIABLE DESCRIPTION:

1, 2: ID number as sorted alphabetically
3: Name
4: Email ID
5: Name of folder in which email was collated
6: Department where individual worked
7: Job title of individual


STORY BEHIND THE DATA:

One of the most infamous corporate scandals of the past few decades curiously left in its wake one of the
most valuable publicly-available datasets. In late 2001, the Enron Corporation's accounting obfuscation
and fraud led to the bankruptcy of the large energy company. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
subpoenaed all of Enron's email records as part of the ensuing investigation. Over the following two years,
the commission released, unreleased, and rereleased the email corpus to the public after deleting emails
that contained personal information like social security numbers. The Enron corpus contains emails whose
subjects range from weekend vacation planning to political strategy talking points, and it remains the only
large example of real world email datasets available for research.

SUBMITTED BY:

J. S. Hardin
Pomona College
Department of Mathematics
610 North College Ave
Claremont, CA, 91711
jo.Hardin@Pomona.edu

G. Sarkis
Pomona College
Department of Mathematics
610 North College Ave
Claremont, CA, 91711
ghassan.Sarkis@Pomona.edu