[Data-modeling] Freebase Supercentenarians

[Shawn Simister]

Thank Gordon,

Glad to hear that this was already in the works. I agreed that this 
would be a good chore for someone like death_bot to do on a monthly basis.

Gordon Mackenzie wrote:
> I had mentioned this to one of our fine data architecture folks internally last week that a good data gardening (or data quality?) task would be to do just as you have requested, though I was less studious in my research and had come up with 120 years as a acceptable life span. So my terminal point was around 1888
>
> Probably should be a monthly task as more non-deceased supercentenarian get added/imported.
>
> +1 for 122 or out.
>
> (I'm aiming for 111 myself)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shawn Simister" <narphorium at gmail.com>
> To: "Freebase data modeling mailing list" <data-modeling at freebase.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:36:02 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> Subject: [Data-modeling] Freebase Supercentenarians
>
> According to Wikipedia, a supercentenarian is anyone who lives past the 
> extremely rare age of 110. The longest proven lifespan was that of 
> Jeanne Calment, who was born in 1875 and lived to be 122 years old. The 
> oldest known person alive today is Edna Parker who is 115 years old.
>
> When I queried Freebase for people born before 1886, I found an 
> estimated 451,000 people who were born over 122 years ago and are not 
> yet typed as deceased people. I think it would be fairly safe to go 
> through and automatically mark these people as deceased even if we don't 
> know the date of their death.
>
> Shawn
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