The Corporate Family Tree
A paper genealogy of corporate affiliations: branches, staples, and film strips hanging from the family.
Larger corporate families produce larger slates; whether that implies homogenization depends on genre diversity within the family.
Question: Do larger corporate “families” produce more diverse slates or more homogenized ones?
Method: Build connected components under Parent/Subsidiary edges; aggregate film outputs; compute genre entropy and budget/revenue medians.
Prediction: Large families touch more films; diversity varies and is not guaranteed to increase with size.
Test: Compare family size vs entropy and financial medians; inspect families as navigation layers rather than causal claims.
Affiliation edges grow into families — legal structure turned into a visual tree.
Branches unfold like paperwork; staples animate to reveal local structure.
Film strips hang from the family: diversity becomes a measurable fingerprint (entropy), not a vibe.
- imdb.company_affiliations
- imdb.companies
- imdb.film_companies
- tmdb.movies
- 18_corporate_family_tree.json
- Affiliation edges are incomplete and may contain errors.
- No dates: consolidation is inferred, not observed over time.
- One weak edge can merge families incorrectly.