This interactive map highlights the most notable person from your hometown

Image: Mapbox

If you want to see the most notable person in your hometown, you can use this interactive world map.

The visualization was put together by Topi Tjukanov, a senior map designer at Mapbox. Researchers tried to account for biases when narrowing down what makes a notable person.

A recent study published in Nature tried to calculate a person's notability based on a number of rules, and each name featured on the map was determined using a baseline of information that was taken from the internet.

The number of Wikipedia editions of each individual;

The length, i.e total number of words found in all available biographies. It is equal to zero for individuals with just one Wikidata entry and no biography in Wikipedia;

The average number of biography views (hits) for each individual between 2015 and 2018 in all available language editions, using an API available in https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/AQS/Pageviews or zero in the absence of a Wikipedia biography;

The number of non-missing items retrieved from Wikipedia or Wikidata for birth date, gender and domain of influence. The intuition here is that the more notable the individual, the more documented his/her biographies will be;

The total number of external links (sources, references, etc.) from Wikidata.

You can see where each individual is notability-wise when you click on each name.

This site could be a great way to explore people near and far. It reminded me that I share the same hometown with Bey.