Title :
Movies and Actors: Mapping the Internet Movie Database
Author :
Herr, Bruce W. ; Ke, Weimao ; Hardy, Elisha ; Börner, Katy
Author_Institution :
Indiana Univ., Bloomington
Abstract :
This paper presents the results of an analysis and visualization of 428,440 movies from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) provided for the Graph Drawing 2005 contest. Simple statistics are presented as well as a tapestry of all movies with an overlay of the giant component of the co-actor network. Academy award winners are highlighted. Major insights are discussed.
Keywords :
Internet; Web sites; data analysis; data visualisation; humanities; Academy award winners; Internet Movie Database; coactor network; movie analysis; movie visualization; Data analysis; Data visualization; Information analysis; Information science; Internet; Libraries; Motion pictures; Relational databases; Statistics; Visual databases;
Conference_Titel :
Information Visualization, 2007. IV '07. 11th International Conference
Conference_Location :
Zurich
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2900-3
