Speaking of people as data, as an exercise I took from Wikipedia a list of all the actors on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and turned it into an interactive program.
Specifically, I’m interested in exploring the lives of the actors in an historical context. So I reordered the list to be in chronological order, and made it so that you could click on any actor to do a Google search on him or her.
The implementation turned out to be a very short Javascript program. You can check it out here.