The Decline of The Polymath

This repository contains the data and notebooks behind
"The Decline of The Polymath – A Visual Inquiry"
— an exploration of how polymaths rose, flourished, and faded across history.

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Contents

• polymaths_clean.csv
  Cleaned dataset of 2,500+ polymaths with their fields, era, and basic metadata.

• Polymath data fetching.ipynb
  Notebook for scraping and cleaning the dataset.

• Polymath EDA.ipynb
  Exploratory data analysis and charts used in the article.

• The Decline of The Polymath – Draft.pdf
  Draft version of the longform article.

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Article

Read the full article (visual version):
The Decline of The Polymath

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Data Source

The dataset was compiled with the help of the AgeDataset acting as a basis for scraping, making the process much simpler thank scraping the entirety of WikiData. It is provided here for educational and research purposes only.

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License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.