movies

Shifts in post-apocalyptic worlds in science fiction films

Infographics / Alvin Chang, apocalypse, movies, Pudding, science fiction

Using science fiction films as a proxy for what we see in our…
Analysis of when movies use their own names in the dialogue

Statistical Visualization / Alice Thudt, dialogue, Dominikus Baur, movies, title

A title drop is when a movie mentions its own name during the…
Breaking down the holiday movie formula

Infographics / holidays, movies, Upshot

NYT’s The Upshot looked at 424 holiday movies released by the Hallmark and…
Flawed Rotten Tomatoes ratings

Mistaken Data / bias, movies, ratings, Rotten Tomatoes, Vulture

Rotten Tomatoes aggregates movie reviews to spit out a freshness score for each…
Asian representation at the Oscars

Infographics / Asian, movies, New York Times, Oscars, representation

Asian characters in American films are historically less integral to the stories and…
Tour of romantic comedies through the decades

Infographics / movies, Reuters, romantic comedy

In celebration of the most romantic day of the year that is sometimes…
Tour through the greatest movies of all time

Infographics / movies, New York Times, poll, Sight and Sound

Every ten years since 1952, Sight and Sound, a British film magazine, has…
AI-generated movie posters

Data Art / AI, movies, neural network, Noah Veltman

Noah Veltman fed an AI movie descriptions and made it generate images. The…
Maps of the movies and their characters

Maps / Back to the Future, fiction, movies

Andrew DeGraff painted maps that show the geography in movies and their characters’…
Names in movies vs. real life

Statistical Visualization / movies, names

Here’s a fun spin on the name analysis genre by Mary Zam. She…
Billions at the Franchise Box Office

Data Underload / box office, franchise, movies

There’s big money in wizarding worlds, galaxies far away, and various time-shifted universes. Let’s take a stroll through the billions of dollars earned by franchises over the years.
Release strategies for Oscar-nominated films

Statistical Visualization / movies, Oscars

Evie Liu and William Davis, reporting MarketWatch, looked at release strategies of Oscar…
Visualizing nonlinear stories

Statistical Visualization / movies, narrative, story, timeline

Many stories don’t follow a linear format. There are flashbacks, or multiple timelines…
Christmas Movies as Charts

Chart Everything / Christmas, movies

‘Tis the season.
Computed screen time for men and women

Statistical Visualization / gender equality, movies

In a collaborative effort, the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media computed…
Gender equality in the movies, a screenplay analysis

Statistics / gender equality, movies

Hollywood has been talking gender equality in the movies more than usual lately,…
Impact of Best Picture Oscar nomination on profit

Infographics / box office, movies, Oscars

I think the general assumption is that getting an Oscar nomination for Best…
Analysis of Love Actually

Statistics / Love Actually, movies

Forget about Shakespeare. Let’s look at a real classic: Love Actually. Somehow I…
A color analysis of Western films

Statistics / color, movies, Western

Kevin Ferguson examined color usage in Western films from various angles. One of…
xkcd: U.S. of movie backgrounds

Maps / movies, xkcd

xkcd sectioned the United States by the background in movies. Because xkcd.…

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