Fork of Pantheon - Tracking Cultural Output Through The Ages
This interactive visualization combines a bubble map and a date histogram to explore cultural output through the ages using the Pantheon dataset of historically notable individuals. The map projects each person's birth location using d3.geoNaturalEarth1 and d3.geoPath, with circle radii scaled by their Historical Popularity Index via d3.scaleSqrt. A linked d3.brushX timeline below filters the map by birthdate, updating the displayed bubbles dynamically. The visualization uses React hooks, d3.csv for data loading, and topojson for world atlas geometry.
AI-generated descriptionI 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 than 15 language translations in Wikipedia.
I like how it helps analyse cultural, and civilisational output through the ages, and highlights the cultural power of European civilisation.
This is a work in progress! Apologies if it kills your browser.