Hidden revolution of human priorities: An analysis of biographical data from Wikipedia
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Highlights：
• Extracted from Wikipedia biographical data from Christmas till nowadays were analyzed and classified.
• Some historical cataclysm dates may be detected in peculiarities of lifespan distribution.
• New mass media generations cause changes in trends of number of biographies with time.
• Time dependence of grouped categories reveals an evolution of human priorities.
• The index of human priorities being quite a constant during almost all the history shows sharp jump at the end of the 20th century.
摘要
•Extracted from Wikipedia biographical data from Christmas till nowadays were analyzed and classified.•Some historical cataclysm dates may be detected in peculiarities of lifespan distribution.•New mass media generations cause changes in trends of number of biographies with time.•Time dependence of grouped categories reveals an evolution of human priorities.•The index of human priorities being quite a constant during almost all the history shows sharp jump at the end of the 20th century.
论文关键词：Data mining,Knowledge extraction,Biographical data,Lifespan,History,Wikipedia
论文评审过程：Received 9 September 2015, Revised 3 December 2015, Accepted 3 December 2015, Available online 7 January 2016, Version of Record 7 January 2016.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2015.12.002
