This folder contains all of the data used in The Pudding essay A People Map of the UK published in June 2019.
The data will never be updated.
Below you'll find the metadata for each file.
- What is this?: Data of the most visited person(s) Wikipedia page for each city with a "People from X town or city..." (~ 2,500) in the UK
- Source(s) & Methodology: English Wikipedia
- Last Modified: June 2019
- Contact Information: Russell Goldenberg
- Spatial Applicability: United Kingdom
- Temporal Applicability: July 2015 through May 2019
- Observations (Rows): Each row represents one person.
- Variables (Columns):
| Header | Description | Data Type |
|---|---|---|
name_clean |
name of person | text |
city_clean |
abridged city/town name | text |
link |
link to wiki page | text |
country |
country name | text |
city |
city/town name | text |
views_median |
average number of pageviews per day | number |
views_sum |
total number of pageviews | number |
lat |
latitude of place | number |
lng |
longitude of place | number |
extract |
200 character description of person | text |