Researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have created a computer program that analyzed and mapped all the available data on the fictional Star Wars universe. All data used by the program came from Wookiepedia.
The computer “read” and analyzed all the pages of the digital encyclopedia on the series and managed to extract information from it in an organized way. Based on these data, the program has cataloged more than 20,000 existing characters in the series, from the most famous to the most obscure, distributed in 640 communities and over 36 thousand years.
Universe vastly expanded
the program offered some interesting information about the fictional universe. For example, despite the presence of several species of ET in the saga, 78% of characters are human. In addition, the 15 characters more connected (which most are with others), only one of them does not appear in the movies: it is Revan a Sith Lord who appears only in comics and games in the series. Below is the percentage distribution of the characters according to species:
of the total, about 7,500 characters play an important role in history. In total, 1367 are Jedi and Sith are 724. The characters are spread over a total of 294 planets. The program could even determine which was temporal some of the more obscure characters belong, thanks to statistical analysis of the characters to which they relate.
According to Kirell Benzi, the project leader, the algorithm It can also be used to extract and organize data from any other matter on which there is sufficient information available. The next goal of Benzi is to create a way to present all this information interactively.
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