Context

Pantheon is a project celebrating the cultural information that endows our species with these fantastic capacities. To celebrate our global cultural heritage we are compiling, analyzing and visualizing datasets that can help us understand the process of global cultural development. Dive in, visualize, and enjoy.

Content

The Pantheon 1.0 data measures the global popularity of historical characters using two measures. The simpler of the two measures, which we denote as L, is the number of different Wikipedia language editions that have an article about a historical character. The more sophisticated measure, which we name the Historical Popularity Index (HPI) corrects L by adding information on the age of the historical character, the concentration of page views among different languages, the coefficient of variation in page views, and the number of page views in languages other than English.

For annotations of specific values visit the column metadata in the /Data tab. A more comprehensive breakdown is available on the Parthenon website.

Acknowledgements

Pantheon is a project developed by the Macro Connections group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab. For more on the dataset and to see visualizations using it, visit its landing page on the MIT website.

Inspiration

Which historical figures have a biography in the most languages? Who received the most Wikipedia page views? Which occupations or industries are the most popular? What country has the most individuals with a historical popularity index over twenty?

Summary dataset of total payments made to higher education and loan holding institutions from Fiscal Year 1995 through Fiscal Year 2016, aggregated by institution.

This dataset consolidates Rent prices in different towns and cities in Massachusetts, house prices and other relevant information. The main objective of the app is to prioritize towns in MA where house price and rent relationship is the most favorable for a potential investor.

Average Fair Market Rent Prices information was scraped from https://www.rentdata.org/states/massachusetts/ from 2006 to 2022. Massachusetts has the 3rd highest rent in the country out of 56 states and territories.

Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2019. U.S. Census Bureau Population Division. May 21, 2020. The data is available for 351 towns in MA.

Home prices in MA were scraped from Boston Magazine web portal: https://www.bostonmagazine.com/property/single-family-home-price-chart-2021/. SOURCES: Boston neighborhood and town median home prices, sales volumes, and days on market provided by the Massachusetts Association of Realtors (marealtor.com) and MLS Property Information Network (mlspin.com).

Massachusetts is the second wealthiest state in the United States of America, with a median household income of $77,378 (as of 2019). The income per household per town was retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Massachusetts_locations_by_per_capita_income.

Petition: Slaves Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909859 Date of creation: 16760000 Petition location: Dorchester Top signatures:Thomas Danforth Total signatures: 1 Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Identifications of signatories: NA Prayer format was printed vs. < a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript: Manuscript Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.

Petition subject: Slaves Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906055 Date of creation: 1777-09-10 Petition location: Scarborough Selected signatures:Joseph Prout Legislative action: Dismissed Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Dismissed Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional archivist notes: William Vaughan, “who came from your hon[orable] court” had informed his two negro men that slaves had been set free by an act of the court on July 14 and they had immediately deserted him and hired themselves out, one to Vaughan, and asking for redress [his cash book for the 1750s is at the Boston Public Library and William Vaughan’s papers or his relatives at MHS: http://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0040 and wikipedia page for one of the William Vaughan’s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Vaughan_(merchant)] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 183, page 132 Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.

Detailed dataset of total payments made to higher education and loan holding institutions from Fiscal Year 1995 through Fiscal Year 2016.

Petition subject: For the removal of Edward Greeley Loring Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858493 Date of creation: (unknown) Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on federal relations Selected signatures:William S. DamrellGeorge CoolidgeGeorge C. Booth Actions taken on dates: 1855-02-15,1855-02-16 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 15, 1855 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 16, 1855 and concurred. Total signatures: 14 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 11 Other male signatures: 3 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: legal voters, others, [other males] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Damrell Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1855, Docket 18373 Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.

Petition subject: Annexation of Texas Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670548 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Nantucket Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Barker Burnell, Nantucket; committee on the annexation of Texas Selected signatures:William HartAbsalom F. BostonDavid JoyEdward PompeyAnsel L. SnowElizabeth WilliamsMary DavisNathaniel A. BordenCaroline D. BostonAnna GardnerZilpha Elaw Actions taken on dates: 1838-01-25,1838-01-26 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 25, 1838 and referred to the committee on the annexation of Texas and received in the House on January 26, 1838 and concurred Total signatures: 81 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 46 Female signatures: 35 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, males, females, [males of color], [females of color], [minors], ["men"], ["women"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: religious, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilpha_Elaw Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1838, c.34, passed March 16, 1838 Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.