Spotlight on movie profitability
Mar 02, 2012 12:52 am • Permalink 
Movies are a curious business. There a variety of forces that encourage people to pay for a movie ticket with an ever-increasing cost, one of those being the aggregate ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, but it's not uncommon for well-reviewed movies to profit small and poorly reviewed movies to profit big. Krisztina Szucs takes a look at this relationship between Rotten Tomatoes score and profit.
It's like a parallel coordinates plot, but the second column represents two values, budget and worldwide gross, which creates a spotlight effect. So big spotlights represent high profit, whereas narrow spotlights that point down represent well reviewed movies that had relatively smaller profit. Movies are categorized by year and genre.
See the full-sized version here.
This was an entry for the Information is Beautiful Awards, and the challenge was to make use of this dataset of Rotten Tomatoes scores and worldwide gross, among other things. They announced the winners yesterday, but Szucs' work didn't place even though it was better than the graphic that did win.
The judging comments for the winner: "Beautiful colours. Simple condensed design. Clever use of multiple axis. Intriguing findings." No offense to the winning graphic designer, but whaaaa? I didn't get that at all. The rainbow palette must have blinded the judges into confusion.
[Krisztina Szucs via The Functional Art]
Mobile phone digital traces
Mar 01, 2012 09:00 am • Permalink In collaboration with Lift and Near Future Laboratory, Interactive Things explores digital traces left by mobile phones in Ville Vivante. Lines and paths flow from place to place in Geneva, Switzerland, showing how the people move in and out of the city during a 24-hour period.
It's hard to say exactly what you're seeing here because it does move so fast, and it probably means more if you live in or near Geneva, but speaking to the video itself, you have your highs and lows during the start and end of days. It then cycles through a handful of views, namely one that looks like wind blowing through and another where particles shoot up from the ground.
There are also interactive views on the project site.
Reminds me of David Wicks' Drawing Water, which shows the flow of sources in the country.
[Interactive Things via infosthetics]
Difference between weather and climate explained
Mar 01, 2012 04:50 am • Permalink The difference:
In this animated short, the relationship between trend and variation are explained with an excellent analogy to a man walking his dog. There is much more variation in the path that the dog takes as compared with the man, but they are both headed the same way. Similarly, weather can be highly variable and climate means long term trends.
I heard that a kitten dies every time a news anchor debunks global warming with an unexpected day of snow.
[Spark]
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