In order to know how did the fortune of billionaires change, one must follow their individual fortune changes. I will present in this post some basic technics about name recognition and data management to construct a cohort from the list of billionaires in 2010 and in 2020 extracted from Forbes.
An example of use of rvest and RSelenium to get data from a website. The goal here is to get the 2010 and 2020 list of billionaires from forbes, to then make a small cohort study