In the previous posts, we looked at loading all of the 1.2 TB of pageviews data from Wikipedia, and ranking the most popular people by day. The final step involves bringing all the data together into a visualisation.

Can we find the most viewed people on Wikipedia each day in 2020 and get a picture of each one?

This year, the English language Wikipedia has averaged around 8 billion page views per month, making it one of the most visited websites in the world. The first half of 2020 has been incredibly eventful, and I was interested building a dataset to see exactly which pages Wikipedia users have been most interested in.