The Stage-Name Wall
A backstage wall of masks (AKA variants) and spotlights (social links), exploring identity breadth and reach proxies.
Higher identity breadth (AKA + social presence) correlates with more internationalized film footprints — but missingness and confounding are large.
Question: Do people with more AKA names and social presence appear in more internationalized films?
Method: Compute identity breadth per person; compare with language-count proxies from sample films; keep missingness explicit.
Prediction: Any association is stronger for cast than crew, but confounding by fame/recency remains.
Test: Compare subsets by role proxies and inspect whether higher breadth clusters in higher language-count samples.
Masks appear: each tile is a person, each dot an identity variant.
Spotlights turn on: social presence flips the tile and pulls it forward.
A ribbon of films reveals language footprint proxies — with missingness kept visible, not hidden.
- imdb.person_aka
- imdb.person_socials
- imdb.people
- tmdb.movies
- 20_stage_name_wall.json
- AKA lists include trivial variants and transliterations.
- Social links are binary and time-varying.
- Strong confounding by fame and recency.