The Taste Blog

In current work with do on database indexes, we decided to use DBLP as a data source. Among other things, we use the authors’ name as a dimension. From one plot, I noticed that there must have half a million distinct authors. I doubted this number, and Kamel was nice enough to investigate further. It turns out that there are 531,480 different authors in DBLP! (As a basis for comparison, there about 945,000 articles.)

I don’t know about you, but this feels like a large number. We…