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"Our analysis shows that most important historical figures across Wikipedia language editions are born in western countries after the 17th century, and are male,"

PageRank says that a page is important if a lot of important pages link to it.

The most important person in the world comes out as Carl Linnaeus, the 18th-century Swedish naturalist

We live in a world where the thorniest policy issues increasingly boil down to arguments over what the data mean. If you don’t understand statistics, you don’t know what’s going on — and you can’t tell when you’re being lied to.

Activists propagate horror stories

correlation is not causation. And individual stories don’t prove anythin