You should note Eric Schulman’s groundbreaking work on the measurement of fame, http://members.verizon.net/~vze3fs8i/air/fame4.html
In particular, as you noticed yourself, a logarithmic measurement scale would be better than a linear one.
A time travel experiment. Impossible? Yes probably, but it didn’t stop us from trying. Our goal was to introduce astronomy to people in remote African villages to see how Galileo might have been received if he brought telescopes.
Richard Zach says:
You should note Eric Schulman’s groundbreaking work on the measurement of fame,
January 31, 2011 @ 2:16 pmhttp://members.verizon.net/~vze3fs8i/air/fame4.html
In particular, as you noticed yourself, a logarithmic measurement scale would be better than a linear one.
Bob Coppock says:
Where is Werner Heisenberg? He’s not on the list.
April 27, 2011 @ 2:23 amRonojoy says:
Your data fits a Pareto distribution (for wealth) quite well! See this http://ronojoyadhikari.wordpress.com/2011/07/02/the-power-in-the-law-of-culturomic-fame/.
July 2, 2011 @ 7:38 am