| Description |
1 online resource (394 pages) |
| Contents |
Who's Bigger?; Title; Copyright; Contents; Rationale; Part I Quantitative History; 1 History's most significant people; People as Memes; Our 100; Other People's Rankings; History vs. Historiography; Overview; 2 Ranking historical figures; Traditional Ranking Methodologies; Measurements of Historical Reputation; Celebrity vs. Gravitas; The Half-Life of Fame; Evaluation Results; 3 Who belongs in bonnie's textbook?; The Significance of Significance; The People in Bonnie's Textbook; Political Leaders; People by Time and Place; Cultural and Social Innovators; Diversity |
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Educational Standards vs. Editorial Decision MakingA Nation of Fourth Graders?; 4 Reading through the past; Google Ngrams; Visualizing Ngram Data; Ngrams and Significance; Posthumous Fame; Faded Glory; 5 Great americans and the process of canonization; The Hall of Fame for Great Americans; Who's In?; Electoral History; Decline and Fall; 6 The baseball hall of fame; Performance and Posterity; The Electoral Record; The Glory of Their Times; Who's In?; The Negro Leagues; Who's Out?: Missing Players; The Market for Collectibles; 7 Historical timescales; Life-Span Analysis |
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Birth Date EffectsAncient History; The Middle Ages; The Modern Era; The Historical Representation of Women; Part Historical Rankings; 8 American political figures; Presidents of the United States; Congressmen; Governors; Mayors; Judges and Justices; Founding Mothers and Fathers; 9 Modern world leaders; Analyzing Political Leadership; The Supreme Leaders; Dictators and Despots; Military Leaders; 10 Science and technology; Scientists; Inventors; Business Leaders; Explorers and Adventurers; 11 Religion and philosophy; Biblical Figures; The Catholic Church; Other Religious Denominations |
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Philosophers12 Sports; Individual Sports; Team Sports; Olympic Sports Stars; 13 The arts; Literature; Popular Writers; Painters and Sculptors; Architects; 14 The performing arts; Before Recording Technology; Western Classical Music; Popular Music; Motion Pictures; Radio and Television; 15 Devils and angels; The Killers; Law and Order; Peacemakers; Social Activists; Civil Rights Leaders; The Education Movement; Appendix A Ranking methodology; A.1 Feature Set; A.2 Ranking Methodology; A.3 The Decay of Fame; Appendix B Resources; B.1 Websites and Databases; B.2 Birth/Death Calendars |
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B.3 The Who's Bigger GameAppendix C biographical dictionary; Bibliography; Index; Cover |
| Summary |
Data-driven rankings of thousands of history's most significant people in science, politics, entertainment, and all areas of human endeavor |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Quantitative research.
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Quantitative research.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ward, Charles
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| ISBN |
9781107465312 |
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1107465311 |
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