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Pantheon - Tracking Cultural Output Through The Ages

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Ssriramvsharma
Last edited Dec 22, 2020
Created on Dec 21, 2020

This visualization tracks the cultural output of notable figures through time using a world map and a time-series histogram. The map plots the birthplaces of individuals from a Wikipedia-based dataset, with circle size and color encoding their historical popularity index and occupation. A linked date histogram, featuring a brush for selection, filters the map to show only those figures born within a chosen era. The graphic is built with React and D3, using `d3.geoNaturalEarth1` for map projections, `d3.scaleSqrt` for sizing, and `d3.brushX` for the interactive timeline filter.

AI-generated description

I plugged the Pantheon dataset into this dataviz template by Curran. There are 62875 people in this dataset. Entries that did not have a birth date were filtered from the original dataset.

The dataset inherits many of the biases and limitations from the user-generated content it originates from. In this case, culturally memorable people are ascertained to be those with biographies in more than 15 languages in Wikipedia.

The interactive date histogram filters cultural, and civilisational output through the ages.

This is a work in progress! Apologies if it kills your browser.

Update: I've filtered the dataset by gender (Women only) to reduce load while I get it working.

MIT Licensed

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