Pantheon: Visualizing historical cultural production

Author

Yu, Amy Zhao ; Hu, Kevin Zeng ; Jagdish, Deepak ; Hidalgo, Cesar A.

Author_Institution

MIT Media Lab., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

25-31 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

289

Lastpage

290

Abstract

We introduce Pantheon, a dataset and visualization platform quantifying cultural accomplishments that have broken the barriers of space, time and language. The Pantheon dataset connects the 11,340 biographies available in more than 25 languages in Wikipedia with a cultural domain, place of birth, and time period. We present this data through an online data visualization platform supporting the exploration of the dataset. In this poster we describe the Pantheon dataset and visualization platform, both of which are available at http://pantheon.media.mit.edu.

Keywords

data visualisation; history; Pantheon dataset; Wikipedia; cultural accomplishment quantification; cultural domain; dataset platform; historical cultural production visualization; online data visualization platform; Cultural differences; Data visualization; Electronic publishing; Encyclopedias; Internet; Production; H.5.2 [Information Systems]: Information Interfaces and Presentation — User Interfaces; J.4 [Computer Applications] Social and Behavioral Sciences — Sociology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), 2014 IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Paris

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VAST.2014.7042534

Filename

7042534