Film Data Stories
A gallery of film experiments—told with data.
Each piece starts with a question, then uses IMDB + TMDB signals to build a designed visualization you can explore.
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core sourcesNarrative
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The Marquee
A cinematic ledger of budget, revenue, and audience chatter to reveal low-budget breakouts.
MethodCompare budget versus revenue and layer audience attention to find residuals.
imdbtmdbbox-office
The Critics' Chorus
A dual-wave score that contrasts awards recognition with audience resonance.
MethodCompare awards totals against popularity, votes, and ratings by genre and decade.
imdbtmdbawards
The Awards Runway
A runway timeline tracking how long films wait to earn awards recognition.
MethodCompute award lag and compare win rates by lag bins.
imdbtmdbawards
The Trailer Cut
A heatmap of thematic beats showing how narrative obsessions rise and fall by decade.
MethodAggregate keyword frequencies by decade and compare with popularity averages.
imdbtmdbkeywords
The Soundtrack Waveform
Layered waves show how multilingual releases amplify audience reach.
MethodCompare revenue and popularity by language count across decades.
imdbtmdblanguage
The Auteur’s Fingerprint
Fingerprint ridges encode a director’s repeating genres and collaborators — a signature you can see and feel.
MethodCompute a signature profile per director using genre variety and collaborator density; compare consistency proxies across the dataset.
imdbtmdbdirectors
The Distribution Roll
Film reels unspool into ribbons: distributor countries feeding regions and formats across decades.
MethodAggregate distributor-country → distribution-region routes by decade and compare route diversity and reach.
imdbtmdbdistribution
The Set Map
A stamped passport of production vs shooting: how often films travel to get made.
MethodCompare production-company country vs location country by decade; measure mismatch rate and top routes.
imdbtmdblocations
The Ensemble Poster
A poster wall where casts become crowds: ensemble size reshapes engagement without guaranteeing higher ratings.
MethodCompare cast size against popularity and vote_average across decades.
imdbtmdbcast
The Two Ledgers
A double-entry audit: where IMDB and TMDB disagree on the money.
MethodCompare IMDB raw budget/gross text against TMDB budget/revenue, measuring log-ratio gaps and outlier density by decade.
imdbtmdbfinance
The Tagline Room
A corkboard of promises: taglines and overviews magnetize into mood and theme.
MethodCluster by repeated keywords and approximate mood from text; compare popularity/rating patterns across clusters.
imdbtmdbtext
The Credit Roll Density
A film-strip wall where crew mix becomes a craft barcode and the roll thickens with density.
MethodAggregate department counts per film and normalize by runtime; compare density and mix against awards and ROI.
imdbtmdbcredits
The Location Package
A stamped binder of footprint vs reality: branches on the cover, locations on the shoot day.
MethodCompare branch country sets with filming location country sets and aggregate flows by decade.
imdbtmdblocations
The Subtitle Split
Subtitle tracks disagree: two sources lay down language sets and divergence becomes a tasteful glitch.
MethodParse language sets and compute Jaccard similarity; analyze divergence by decade.
imdbtmdblanguages
The Casting Call
A call sheet + gravity board that asks whether star power pulls audience response like physics.
MethodCompute cast gravity from top-billed star-meter weighted by billing order, then compare against popularity and votes by decade.
imdbtmdbcast
The Editing Timeline
A neon editing bay where genre hybrids leave splice marks across the timeline.
MethodCompare popularity and awards across genre_count bins and decades.
imdbtmdbgenres
The Spotlight
A theater of beams: departments become lights, and award wins sharpen the focus.
MethodMeasure department presence by film and compare win rates across departments and decades.
imdbtmdbcrew
The Press Kit
A dossier stack of rosters: companies as folders, clients as tear sheets, credits as clippings.
MethodGroup clients by company and summarize profession diversity and star-meter statistics.
imdbtmdbcompanies
The Buddy Montage
A tactile filmstrip of repeat collaborations: duos recur, and their shared reel becomes a signature.
MethodAggregate collaborations by pair type and compare awards/popularity across collab-count bins.
imdbtmdbcollaboration
The Greenlight Funnel
A greenlight board where scripts move through stamped statuses — and the unlinked pile becomes part of the evidence.
MethodNormalize messy status strings into canonical stages; compute stage shares per company; summarize released-linked outcomes and unlinked volume.
imdbtmdbdevelopment
The Corporate Family Tree
A paper genealogy of corporate affiliations: branches, staples, and film strips hanging from the family.
MethodBuild connected components under Parent/Subsidiary edges; aggregate film outputs; compute genre entropy and budget/revenue medians.
imdbtmdbcompanies
The Stage-Name Wall
A backstage wall of masks (AKA variants) and spotlights (social links), exploring identity breadth and reach proxies.
MethodCompute identity breadth per person; compare with language-count proxies from sample films; keep missingness explicit.
imdbtmdbpeople
Award Season Wheel
A mechanical watch face where months are gears and bars: prestige density and box-office momentum rotate through the calendar.
MethodAggregate award-winner counts and average box office by release month.
imdbtmdbawards
Role Chameleon
A biological membrane map where departments are organelles and careers leak across them as thickening ribbons.
MethodCount people with credits in more than one department and aggregate department-pair frequencies.
imdbcareerscrew
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