The Rulers of Europe: Every YearCottereau2018-04-27 | This video shows the rulers of European countries, for every year since 400 BC.
Music : The Dark Knight Trilogy Ultimate Cut, by matogolf youtube.com/watch?v=iXv92OgO4yYThe Territorial Evolution of FranceCottereau2020-10-16 | Pink means a loss of territory, green means a gain of a territory.
This beauty of a music is called "Impossible" by Two Steps From HellAssembling France by Political OrientationCottereau2020-05-29 | This video shows every French town, ranked from the most left-wing, to the most right wing.
50% of the towns are in red color, and 50% are in the blue.
Data: French presidential elections, 2017, first round https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/election-presidentielle-des-23-avril-et-7-mai-2017-resultats-definitifs-du-1er-tour-par-communes/
Methodology: 1. I classified every candidate in 3 categories: - Left: Poutou, Arthaud, Cheminade, Mélenchon, Hamon (weight: -1) - Centre: Macron (weight : 0) - Right: Lasalle, Fillon, Asselineau, Dupont-Aignan, Le Pen (weight: -1) 2. I calculated a weighted average of the political score in every town 3. I ranked every town from most left wing to most right wing 4. The first half of the town is in red (the most left wing towns), and the second half in in blue (the most right wing towns)
Music by Rousseau. Check-out his amazing channel! youtube.com/channel/UCPZUQqtVDmcjm4NY5FkzqLAAssembling France by Average IncomeCottereau2020-05-15 | This video shows every French town, ranked from the highest average income, to the lowest average income.
50% of the towns are in brown, and 50% are in green.
Data was not available for all overseas territories. That's why they are not included in this video.
Data: Insee (2016), Dispositif sur les revenus localisés sociaux et fiscaux https://www.insee.fr/fr/metadonnees/source/serie/s1172
Music by Rousseau. Check-out his amazing channel! youtube.com/channel/UCPZUQqtVDmcjm4NY5FkzqLAAnimated map shows every European town in 46 secondsCottereau2020-04-24 | This map was inspired by the works of an awesome Reddit user known as "SuperMac". He published gorgeous density maps. I couldn't help but to use this style and make it a timelapse.
Music by Rousseau: youtube.com/watch?v=M93qXQWaBdEAssembling the World by Alcohol ConsumptionCottereau2019-11-29 | This is a list of territories by alcohol consumption measured in litres of pure alcohol consumed per capita per year.
The video goes from territories that consume the least alcohol to those that consume the most.
The video goes from most income unequal to most equal territories.
Data source : World Bank (2017) data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINIAssembling the World by Suicide RateCottereau2019-10-25 | This is a list of territories by suicide rate. A territory’s rate is determined by its total rate of suicide deaths per 100.000 people within a year.
The video goes from highest to lowest suicide rates.
Data source : World Health Organization (2016) http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.MHSUICIDEASDR?lang=enAssembling the World by Homicide RateCottereau2019-10-11 | This is a list of territories ranked by intentional homicide rate per year per 100,000 inhabitants.
The video goes from highest to lowest homicide rates.
Please note that David Guetta and DJ Snake are now labeled by YouTube as US channels.
Music : Heroic - Arc NorthTop 10 Most Subscribed YouTube Channels (2011-2019)Cottereau2019-08-25 | As PewDiePie hits 100 million subscribers, let's take a look at the history of the most subscribed Youtube channels.
Subscriber count is in thousands.
Music: Arc North - Meant To Be (feat. Krista Marina)Timeline of English & British MonarchsCottereau2019-08-09 | The map shows the territory controlled by the ruler at the end of his reign.
Soundtrack is from the movie “The Patriot” : John Williams - Preparing for battleTimeline of the Rulers of FranceCottereau2019-06-28 | The map shows the territory controlled by the ruler at the end of his reign.100 Largest Empires in HistoryCottereau2019-06-14 | This video shows the 100 largest empires in History.
Empires are defined as “any relatively large sovereign political entity whose components are not sovereign”
I updated Rein Taagepera‘s list because : - I drew the shapes of the countries on Google map and sometimes found different results from Taagepera's - I added some empires. For example, I added the United States in its XIXth century form, when it had a colonial empire consisting of the Philippines, Guam, Samoa, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Panama. I would not have classified the USA as an empire today.
You might notice that some empires look larger than others on the map, while being classified as smaller. That is because maps do not represent the actual size of a sphere like the earth. Please check this video for more details : youtube.com/watch?v=kIID5FDi2JQ500 Greatest Generals in History: 516-401Cottereau2019-05-31 | I created a query that looks at every battle article in Wikipedia and identifies the military commander who won the battle. This video shows the 516th to 401st military commanders that won the most battles.
Rules • Battles are included only if they have a Wikipedia article
Methodology: I used Wikipedia as a directory of battles:
1. I created a query with Wikidata Query to get the list of all articles tagged as "battle" by Wikipedia. This gives me about 12,000 battles
2. I downloaded the data that is included in the top right hand table of every of those Wikipedia article. I did it for the following versions of Wikipedia: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Greek, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian, Japanese, Danish, Norwegian, Slovakian, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Hindi, Hebrew, Basque, Bulgarian, Romanian, Catalan, Finnish, Swedish, Vietnamese, Persian, Indonesian, Korean
3. I cleaned up the data on Excel to remove double entries :
4. I created an index of countries with their predecessor states:500 Greatest Generals in History: 400-301Cottereau2019-05-24 | I created a query that looks at every battle article in Wikipedia and identifies the military commander who won the battle. This video shows the 400th to 301st military commanders that won the most battles.
Rules • Battles are included only if they have a Wikipedia article
Methodology: I used Wikipedia as a directory of battles:
1. I created a query with Wikidata Query to get the list of all articles tagged as "battle" by Wikipedia. This gives me about 12,000 battles
2. I downloaded the data that is included in the top right hand table of every of those Wikipedia article. I did it for the following versions of Wikipedia: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Greek, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian, Japanese, Danish, Norwegian, Slovakian, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Hindi, Hebrew, Basque, Bulgarian, Romanian, Catalan, Finnish, Swedish, Vietnamese, Persian, Indonesian, Korean
3. I cleaned up the data on Excel to remove double entries :
4. I created an index of countries with their predecessor states:500 Greatest Generals in History: 300-201Cottereau2019-05-17 | I created a query that looks at every battle article in Wikipedia and identifies the military commander who won the battle. This video shows the 300th to 201st military commanders that won the most battles.
Rules • Battles are included only if they have a Wikipedia article
Methodology: I used Wikipedia as a directory of battles:
1. I created a query with Wikidata Query to get the list of all articles tagged as "battle" by Wikipedia. This gives me about 12,000 battles
2. I downloaded the data that is included in the top right hand table of every of those Wikipedia article. I did it for the following versions of Wikipedia: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Greek, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian, Japanese, Danish, Norwegian, Slovakian, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Hindi, Hebrew, Basque, Bulgarian, Romanian, Catalan, Finnish, Swedish, Vietnamese, Persian, Indonesian, Korean
3. I cleaned up the data on Excel to remove double entries :
4. I created an index of countries with their predecessor states:500 Greatest Generals in History: 200-101Cottereau2019-05-03 | This video shows the 200th to 101st best military commanders by battles won, according to Wikipedia.
Battles are included only if they have a Wikipedia article
Methodology: I used Wikipedia as a directory of battles:
1. I created a query with Wikidata Query to get the list of all articles tagged as "battle" by Wikipedia. This gives me about 12,000 battles
2. I downloaded the data that is included in the top right hand table of every of those Wikipedia article. I did it for the following versions of Wikipedia: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Greek, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian, Japanese, Danish, Norwegian, Slovakian, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Hindi, Hebrew, Basque, Bulgarian, Romanian, Catalan, Finnish, Swedish, Vietnamese, Persian, Indonesian, Korean
3. I cleaned up the data on Excel to remove double entries :
4. I created an index of countries with their predecessor states:100 Greatest Generals in HistoryCottereau2019-03-15 | This video shows the 100 generals that have won the most battles in history (according to Wikipedia). To make that video, I created a query that searches every battle article in Wikipedia and identifies the general that won the battle.
Methodology: 1. I created a query with Wikidata Query to get the list of all articles tagged as "battle" by Wikipedia. This gives me about 12,000 battles 2. I downloaded the data that is included in the top right hand table of every of those Wikipedia article. I did it for the following versions of Wikipedia: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Greek, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian, Japanese, Danish, Norwegian, Slovakian, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Hindi, Hebrew, Basque, Bulgarian, Romanian, Catalan, Finnish, Swedish, Vietnamese, Persian, Indonesian, Korean 3. I cleaned up the data on Excel to remove double entries100 Most Powerful Militaries of All TimeCottereau2019-02-15 | This video shows the countries that have won the most battles in history, as documented by Wikipedia.
Rules • Battles are included only if they have a Wikipedia article • Each country can only have 1 predecessor state at the same time (eg. the UK's predecessor is England, but not Scotland)
Methodology: I used Wikipedia as a directory of battles:
1. I created a query with Wikidata Query to get the list of all articles tagged as "battle" by Wikipedia. This gives me about 12,000 battles
2. I downloaded the data that is included in the top right hand table of every of those Wikipedia article. I did it for the following versions of Wikipedia: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Greek, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian, Japanese, Danish, Norwegian, Slovakian, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Hindi, Hebrew, Basque, Bulgarian, Romanian, Catalan, Finnish, Swedish, Vietnamese, Persian, Indonesian, Korean
3. I cleaned up the data on Excel to remove double entries :
4. I created an index of countries with their predecessor states:Timelapse of Every Battle in HistoryCottereau2019-01-01 | This video shows every battle referenced on Wikipedia (10,624). Every battle is represented by a dot. Dots stay on the map for a while and then disappear.
Rules • Battles are included only if they have a Wikipedia article • Each country can only have 1 predecessor state at the same time (eg. the UK's predecessor is England, but not Scotland)
Methodology: I used Wikipedia as a directory of battles:
1. I created a query with Wikidata Query to get the list of all articles tagged as "battle" by Wikipedia. This gives me about 12,000 battles
2. I downloaded the data that is included in the top right hand table of every of those Wikipedia article. I did it for the following versions of Wikipedia: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Greek, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian, Japanese, Danish, Norwegian, Slovakian, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Hindi, Hebrew, Basque, Bulgarian, Romanian, Catalan, Finnish, Swedish, Vietnamese, Persian, Indonesian, Korean
3. I cleaned up the data on Excel to remove double entries and obtained 10,624 unique battles
4. I created an index of countries with their predecessor states: • France (476 - 2018): Frankish Kingdom, Frankish Empire, West Francia, Kingdom of France, French Empire, French Republic • UK-England (927 - 2018): Kingdom of England, Commonwealth of England, Great Britain, United Kingdom • USA (1776 - 2018): American patriots, USA • Russia (882 - 2018) : Kievan Rus', Muscovy, Russian Empire, Bolsheviks, USSR, Russian Federation • Germany (843 - 2018) : East Francia, Kingdom of Germany, Holy Roman Empire, Confederation of the Rhine, German Confederation, North German Confederation, German Empire, Germany • Spain (718 - 2018) : Asturies, León, Castile, Kingdom of Spain • Poland (960 - 2018) : Kingdom of Poland, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Duchy of Warsaw, Polish insurgents, Poland • Rome (753 BC - 476) : Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic, Roman Empire, Western Roman Empire • China (2500 BC – 2018) : Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, 3 Kingdoms, Jin, Sui, Tang, 10 Kingdoms, Song, Yuan, Ming, China • Turkey (1037 - 2018): Seljuk empire, Anatolian Turks, Ottoman Empire, Turkey
Limitations : You probably noticed that Europe concentrates the majority of battles. Possible explanations include the fact that Wikipedia is used more in Europe, the ban of Wikipedia in China or Turkey, or the lack of documentation of military records in some countries. Some similar research also found that Europe had more battles than the rest of the world. telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/12180516/Geography-of-violence-Map-records-every-battle-ever-fought.html
Credits : Music : Hans Zimmer - Imagine the Fire Special thanks to the GOATThe History of Europe: Every YearCottereau2018-01-01 | This video shows the borders and populations of each country in Europe, for every year since 400 BC. Vassal states and colonies are not included in the count of a country's population.