DocumentCode
3041815
Title
Movies and Actors: Mapping the Internet Movie Database
Author
Herr, Bruce W. ; Ke, Weimao ; Hardy, Elisha ; Börner, Katy
Author_Institution
Indiana Univ., Bloomington
fYear
2007
fDate
4-6 July 2007
Firstpage
465
Lastpage
469
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Information Visualization, 2007. IV '07. 11th International Conference
Conference_Location
Zurich
ISSN
1550-6037
Print_ISBN
0-7695-2900-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IV.2007.78
Filename
4272022
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