Jul 30, 2022 19:00:00

A map 'Notable people' that visualizes the most famous people from each land where you can see 'the most famous person in your hometown'

Topi Jukhanov, a senior map designer and geographer at map development platform Mapbox , has released ' Notable people ', a map of the most well-known people in the region.

Notable people
https://tjukanovt.github.io/notable-people

In 'Notable people', as it expands, multiple names will be displayed in the same country or region, but the name visible at the stage before expansion is the name of the most famous person from the region becomes. Since the name of 'Barack Obama' is displayed in Hawaii, it means 'Barack Obama is the most famous person from Hawaii'.

When Japan is displayed on the map, it is as follows. The most famous person from Hokkaido is

Satoshi Kon , who is known as the director of animation films such as ' Perfect Blue ', ' Millennium Actress', ' Tokyo Godfathers ' and ' Paprika '. The most famous writer in the Tohoku region is Kenji Miyazawa , a writer from Iwate Prefecture. In the Kanto region, the name of Hayao Miyazaki , an animation director from Tokyo and the creator of Ghibli works, is displayed. In the Kyushu region, novelist Kazuo Ishiguro , who was born in Nagasaki, and in Okinawa, GACKT .

Further expanding the map like this. Only Haruki Murakami 's name is displayed extensively in the Kansai region, and you can see that he boasts overwhelming name recognition than other celebrities. Haruki Murakami is from Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture. In addition, the names of famous celebrities such as Osamu Dazai from Aomori Prefecture, D.T. Suzuki from Ishikawa Prefecture, and Shinzo Abe , whose permanent address is Yamaguchi Prefecture, are lined up. From manga artist Rumiko Takahashi (from Niigata Prefecture), known for manga such as 'Urusei Yatsura' and 'Ranma 1/2', to historical greats like Kukai (from Kagawa Prefecture), known as the founder of Shingon Buddhism. , It is also characterized by displaying the names of various people.

Even if you expand only Tokyo, you can see so many names, so you can check the most famous people in your hometown.

By clicking 'All', 'Culture', 'Discovery & Science', 'Leadership', 'Sports & Games' in the center of the left side of the screen, each region by category You can also view celebrities from Looking at it this way, Hayao Miyazaki is the most well-known person in Japan in the field of culture, and Hideki Yukawa , the first Japanese physicist to receive the Nobel Prize, is the most well-known person in the field of discovery and science. (from Kyoto Prefecture), Emperor Showa was the most well-known coach in Japan, and soccer player Shinji Kagawa was the most well-known sports and gamer in Japan.

``Notable people'' calculates ``the most famous person in the region'' based on the paper `` Cross-reference database of celebrities from 3500 BC to 2018 AD '' published in Nature in 2022. .

In this paper, we measured the number of page views for people who have individual pages on Wikipedia using the Pageview API developed by the Wikipedia Foundation, the operator of Wikipedia. To explain 'page views' more specifically, it seems to be 'the average number of page views from 2015 to 2018 in all available language versions of Wikipedia'. Based on this average number of page views and the total number of external links (sources and references) for individual pages on Wikipedia, we measure the 'famousness' of each celebrity.