Clicking around a bit I think the only conclusion I draw is that variability from one movie to the next is much greater than any overall trend of an actor's career.
Yeah I was planning to add very similar pages to those once I've cleaned up my data. How did you do the popularity rankings, or were those somehow included in IMDB's data dump and I overlooked?
This is cool. I was hoping to write something to look at movies differently (just something to get me working on something). I didn't even know IMDB let you get data.
I don't know if it's possible but can you break games, shows, movies, etc out? Video games got shown next to movies (and probably shows). I would like to know if some actor does great on tv but flops games/movies etc.
That and the random kept giving me foreign actors. I suppose that means it really is random...would be cool to see random by language or something.
Yeah absolutely, I initially want to start it small and slowly expand it to encompass a lot of those things with a variety of features.
When I initially had the random actor, a vast majority of the time I would land up on someone who only had 1 movie, so basically a dot on the graph, so I restricted the eligibility of the random page for the actor to have at least 3 films under their belt.
The thing with literal data, is that you don't get a comprehensive look on their "best" work. For example, Tom Hanks. As a cinema buff, an actor's work isn't rated based on his highest and lowest rating. http://i.imgur.com/MnVFiWF.png?1
I wouldn't show the highest and lowest rated film, but rank on awards and successful ($) hits. Also, showing an "average" is good, but can really hinder a true value.
Nice man I like the idea, its loading a bit slow for me just now but I recon that's cause its reached front page.
I'm working on something using IMDB information as well right now, hope you done mind If I share it. It's getting an overhaul right now and more features are being implemented as we speak.
Fun. Fell a little flat when I found movies like "Craptastic" for Clint Eastwood, which he wasn't really involved with. Does the data dump have categories so you can restrict the list more appropriately?
Why is it that some movies are missing from the results? For example, when I searched "Daniel Day-Lewis", the movie "The Last of The Mohicans" was missing.
I'm not sure, I'll look into it. I know I excluded many of the "Behind the Scenes" and "Making of" movies, but I'm not sure why legit ones are missing, thank you for reporting that specific example so I trace the problem.
Definitely. I only parsed through the names, ratings, and years. Going back to parse more stuff such as the number of votes, genre, etc. is going to be the most painful part of this project.
We offer fairly advanced movie data analysis capabilities, using data from Freebase, Rotten Tomatoes and The-numbers.com.
You can do stuff like this: http://iknow.io/insight/christopher-nolans-movies-are-gettin...
And a lot more. We'd love feedback on how we can improve if you have any, thanks!