A Scientific Method for Choosing Baby Names and Where to Grow Up
Channel: paulinecng
Date: 2012-11-13

Choosing baby names and where to live are often the first decisions new parents make. This video is a scientific approach for choosing baby names and birth locations  that are associated with success, as measured by likelihood of a person appearing in Wikipedia. 

Main results are:
1) People who use their nicknames rather than their formal names are more likely to appear in Wikipedia 
2) People with rare names are more likely to appear in Wikipedia
3) People born in California and New York are more likely to become entertainers; people born in the South are more likely to become athletes

This is a summary of the paper "Mining Wikipedia for Characteristics of Notable Individuals"