Contemporaries

Search for your favorite modern or historical figure and see who their most famous contemporaries.

About

The goal of this project is to allow users to better visualize the contemporaries of historical figures.

Users can search for their favorite historical figure and see who lived alongside them. This sort of visualization can help users better understand the context of a person's life and the people they interacted with.

It can also be fun to see which individuals were alive at the same time, even if they likely never interacted with each other.

Future Work

This project is still in its early stages, and there are many features that will be added to improve the user experience.

Planned improvements include adding more detailed biographical data, adding images for each individual, more advanced search features, and a more interactive timeline visualization.

Acknowledgments

The data used by this project came from Morgane Laouenan et al. ↗. The data was sorted based on a person's notability ranking. Only the top 250,000 historical figures are viewable.

The timeline visualization was created using Timeline by Knightlab ↗.

Original data was provided by Wikipedia ↗ and Wikidata ↗.

Made by Jose Rivas using solid-start.