people map uk

README.md

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 | Pudding Story Title                                                                                                      | Story Publish Date | Data Update Frequency | Keywords                                                                | Data                                                                                                           |
 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------ | --------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+|[A People Map of the UK](https://pudding.cool/2019/06/people-map-uk)|June 2019 | never | wiki, names, UK | [repo](https://github.com/the-pudding/data/tree/master/people-map-uk)|
 |[A People Map of the US](https://pudding.cool/2019/05/people-map)|May 2019 | never | wiki, names, US | [repo](https://github.com/the-pudding/data/tree/master/people-map)|
 |[Sing My Name](https://pudding.cool/2019/05/names-in-songs)|May 2019 | never | music, names, US | [repo](https://github.com/the-pudding/data/tree/master/names-in-songs)|
 |[The Rise of Hyphenated Last Names in Pro Sports](https://pudding.cool/2019/05/hyphens/) | May 2019 | never | sports, culture, names, MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, NWSL, WNBA | [repo](https://github.com/the-pudding/hyphenated-names) |

people-map-uk/README.md

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+This folder contains all of the data used in The Pudding essay A People Map of the UK published in June 2019.
+
+The data will never be updated.
+
+Below you'll find the metadata for each file.
+
+## people-map-uk.csv
+
+-   **What is this?**: Data of the most visited person(s) Wikipedia page for each city with a "People from X town or city..." (~ 2,500) in the UK
+-   **Source(s) & Methodology**: [English Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org)
+-   **Last Modified**: June 2019
+-   **Contact Information**: [Russell Goldenberg](mailto:russell@pudding.cool)
+-   **Spatial Applicability**: United Kingdom
+-   **Temporal Applicability**: July 2015 through May 2019
+-   **Observations (Rows)**: Each row represents one person.
+-   **Variables (Columns)**:
+
+| Header | Description | Data Type |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| `name_clean` | name of person | text |
+| `city_clean` | abridged city/town name | text |
+| `link` | link to wiki page | text |
+| `country` | country name | text |
+| `city` | city/town name | text |
+| `views_median` | average number of pageviews per day | number |
+| `views_sum` | total number of pageviews | number |
+| `lat` | latitude of place | number |
+| `lng` | longitude of place | number |
+| `extract` | 200 character description of person | text |