Who makes history? I analyzed 29,000 New York Times obituaries to find out.

OC: Earlier this month, I posted a dashboard for exploring 2.2 million New York Times articles going back to 2000. I’ve now added a way to explore all 29,000 obituaries the paper has published during that period, and it reveals a lot about who makes history. An estimated 1.5 billion people have died worldwide since [...]