A Brief History of Human Time. Exploring a database of ” notable people ” Olivier Gergaud, Morgane Laouenan, Etienne Wasmer To cite this version: Olivier Gergaud, Morgane Laouenan, Etienne Wasmer. A Brief History of Human Time. Exploring a database of ” notable people ”. 2017. hal-01440325 HAL Id: hal-01440325 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01440325 Preprint submitted on 19 Jan 2017 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. LIEPP Working Paper February 2016, nº46 A Brief History of Human Time Exploring a database of “notable people” Olivier Gergaud KEDGE Business School and LIEPP, Sciences Po
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[email protected] www.sciencespo.fr/liepp © 2016 by the authors. All rights reserved. ABriefHistoryofHuman Time Exploring a database of “notable people” (3000BCE-2015AD) Version 1.0.1⇤ Olivier Gergaud,† Morgane Laouenan,‡ Etienne Wasmer§ February 8, 2016 Abstract This paper describes a database of 1,243,776 notable people and 7,184,575 locations (Geolinks) associated with them throughout human history (3000BCE-2015AD).