Using science fiction films as a proxy for what we see in our future, Alvin Chang, for the Pudding, examines the shift in settings, themes, and endings over the past eight decades. Pixel art adds depth to the data, which was partially derived via ChatGPT to categorize films over the years.
I always appreciate Chang’s connections between life and data. An analysis of sci-fi movies could easily get stuck at counts and percentages, but this gives a bit more.
