Veröffentlicht am 31.07.2014
This animation distils hundreds of
years of culture into just five minutes. A team of historians and
scientists wanted to map cultural mobility, so they tracked the births
and deaths of notable individuals like David, King of Israel, and
Leonardo da Vinci, from 600 BC to the present day. Using them as a proxy
for skills and ideas, their map reveals intellectual hotspots and
tracks how empires rise and crumble
The information comes from Freebase, a Google-owned database of well-known people and places, and other catalogues of notable individuals. The visualization was created by Maximilian Schich (University of Texas at Dallas) and Mauro Martino (IBM).
Read Nature's news story: http://www.nature.com/news/1.15650
Find the research paper in Science: http://www.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/...
The information comes from Freebase, a Google-owned database of well-known people and places, and other catalogues of notable individuals. The visualization was created by Maximilian Schich (University of Texas at Dallas) and Mauro Martino (IBM).
Read Nature's news story: http://www.nature.com/news/1.15650
Find the research paper in Science: http://www.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/...
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