This project was developped in the context of the Master course "Foundation of Digital Humanities" at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). This is one of the core course of the first semester of the Digital Humanities Master program.
The theme of the 2019 projects was "Paris" and we had no other constraint as far as our subject was related to humanities. We started by exploring the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. When we found our sources, we were pretty excited about the idea of discovering the famous neighbourhoods of this beautiful city back in time. This is how the idea of "Influencers of the past" emerged. By the way, we chose this title as a reference to the trend of "digital influencers" of nowadays.
Find more about how we developped this project here.