Type
Working paper
Title
A Brief History of Human Time : Exploring a database of “notable people”
In
Sciences Po LIEPP Working Paper
Author(s)
GERGAUD Olivier - Sciences Po (Author)
LAOUENAN Morgane - Sciences Po (Author)
WASMER Etienne - Département d'économie (ECON) (Author)
LAOUENAN Morgane - Sciences Po (Author)
WASMER Etienne - Département d'économie (ECON) (Author)
Editor
Paris : Laboratoire interdisciplinaire d'évaluation des politiques publiques
Collection
Sciences Po LIEPP Working Paper : 46
Abstract
EN
This paper describes a database of 1,243,776 notable people and 7,184,575 locations (Geolinks) associated with them throughout human history. We first describe in details the various approches and procedures adopted to extract the relevant informationfrom their Wikipedia biographies and then analyze the database.