Tag: Twentieth century

• Where every film director is from

  

  I mapped the birthplaces of 43,619 film directors in Wikidata: New York and Paris lead, Prague and Copenhagen lead per head, Asia’s share has grown since the 1950s, one in seven made their films abroad, and women went from 3% of new directors in the 1920s to 32% in the 2020s.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  art, Birthplaces, Europe, Film and television, population, Twentieth century, Wikidata, Women and gender, World

• Where the asylums were: the rise, fall and afterlife of Britain’s county asylums

  

  I mapped 233 of Britain’s asylums and psychiatric hospitals from Wikipedia. Most were built between 1845 and 1914, almost none closed until the 1980s, and of the closed sites whose fate is known, 66% are now homes.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, buildings, Health and disease, history, Twentieth century, UK, Victorian, Wikipedia

• Who was big when? 126 seasons of English league football on one map

  

  Every English league club since 1888 on one map, sized by its crowd: 41.2 million at league matches in 1948-49, 16.5 million in 1985-86, a game that moved south, and 39 towns that lost their league club.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Animated timeline, Britain, England, Football, history, maps, Present day, sport, Twentieth century, Victorian, Wales

• Junk on the Moon and Mars: every human-made object on two worlds, mapped

  

  I mapped every human-made object on the Moon and Mars from Wikipedia’s lists: 133 on the Moon and 27 on Mars, 203 tonnes and 10.4 tonnes. A third of the Moon’s junk is five Saturn V rocket stages, and almost all of it is dead.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Beyond Earth, Exploration, Heritage, maps, Present day, space, Space and astronomy, Twentieth century, Wikipedia, world maps

• Where football clubs come from: from Sheffield in 1857 to every corner of the world

  

  I put 45,931 football clubs from Wikidata on one animated map, in the order they were founded: from Sheffield FC in 1857 to 222 countries and territories, with the oldest club in each and the clubs that folded.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Animated timeline, Football, history, sport, Twentieth century, Victorian, Wikidata, World, world maps