Pantheon - Tracking Cultural Output Through The Ages
This interactive visualization tracks the cultural output of notable women through time, using a world map to display the birth locations of historically significant individuals. A date histogram below the map allows users to brush across time periods, filtering the map to show only people born within the selected range. The map uses a natural Earth projection with graticules and land outlines, while circles sized by each person's Historical Popularity Index are colored by occupation. Built with React, the visualization leverages D3's `geoNaturalEarth1` projection, `geoPath`, `geoGraticule`, `csv` data parsing, and `brushX` for the interactive filtering.
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 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 to Mathematicians to reduce load while I get it working.