“You only live as long as the last person to remember you.” - Akecheta (Westworld)
Screencasts of the story as it is created.
Clone the repo and run npm i
Individual steps below, or run make reproduce
Download the HTML for the year event pages from wiki that contain a list of all notable deaths (2015-2018).
Extract every person and their meta data from the event pages to create a single csv of all notable deaths from 2015-2018.
Use wiki pageviews api to get the daily pageviews for en.wikipedia.org so that we can calculate percent of traffic for each person and look into seasonality in the data.
Use the wiki pageviews api to get the daily pageviews for each person in our full list of notable deaths.
Bin each person's pageviews by multiple intervals (1 week, 72hrs, 48 hrs).
Calculates a bunch of summary statistics for each person (Must choose bin).
Reduces the data to people who satisfy some quantiative criteria.
Gets more detail info on each person from wiki and custom spreadsheet.
Consolidates and optimizes data for visual exploration.
Streamlines data for web presentation.