PANTHEON
Corriere della Sera - La Lettura #181
The artwork shows the first 100 historical figures in order of influence according to Pantheon, a Macro connections group of the MIT Media Lab of Boston project which took into account various parameters such as Wikipedia and the volume by Charles Murray "Human Accomplishmen. The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 BC”.
The timeline on the left shows the historical epoch of the character associated with a circle that represents the number of visits of the Wikipedia page in all languages from January 2008 to December 2013. The characters are then grouped by color according to employment, by country of origin and then by gender.
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