PageRank applied to IMDB movie connections (SVG) (opens in new tab)

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2 pointsjberkel15y ago5 comments

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jey15y ago· 4 in thread

Where's the "rank" part of this PageRank? This looks to me like a digraph of movies indicating some kind of directed relationship between movies.

pedalpete15y ago

I think that is because the visualization isn't clear. I think it would be better if the movie bubbles were scaled to how many other movie connections it had, rather than just the number of arrows pointing to it, which doesn't work as well.

Also, we can't see what those connections are, and from what I'm looking at, it is difficult for me to understand.

Knowing that IMDB holds data on the actors, producers, etc. I was expecting that was the connection, x number of actors/producers/directors from film a worked on film b, but it doesn't look like that is what this does.

The beauty of pagerank is the simplicity. The IMDB movie connections has lost that simplicity I think.

jberkelOP15y ago

it's explained in the blog post. it's the result of running pagerank on connection/references between movies, and graphing the connections between the top 100. you can see the pagerank when you hover over a title.

maybe the size of a node should indicate the rank to make it clearer.

jey15y ago

Oh, OK. It's in some dire need of some information design.

It would be good to at least replace the year with the PageRank.

jberkelOP15y ago

thanks for you feedback.

i've replaced it with a new version which scales the node size according to the pagerank. i agree that the graph is a bit messy with all these connections floating around but it was also the intention to show the density of references between films.

here's a version with fewer nodes: http://zegoggl.es/svg/imdb_top_50.svg

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5 comments

5 comments · 1 top-level

jey15y ago· 4 in thread

Where's the "rank" part of this PageRank? This looks to me like a digraph of movies indicating some kind of directed relationship between movies.

pedalpete15y ago

I think that is because the visualization isn't clear. I think it would be better if the movie bubbles were scaled to how many other movie connections it had, rather than just the number of arrows pointing to it, which doesn't work as well.

Also, we can't see what those connections are, and from what I'm looking at, it is difficult for me to understand.

Knowing that IMDB holds data on the actors, producers, etc. I was expecting that was the connection, x number of actors/producers/directors from film a worked on film b, but it doesn't look like that is what this does.

The beauty of pagerank is the simplicity. The IMDB movie connections has lost that simplicity I think.

jberkelOP15y ago

it's explained in the blog post. it's the result of running pagerank on connection/references between movies, and graphing the connections between the top 100. you can see the pagerank when you hover over a title.

maybe the size of a node should indicate the rank to make it clearer.

jey15y ago

Oh, OK. It's in some dire need of some information design.

It would be good to at least replace the year with the PageRank.

jberkelOP15y ago

thanks for you feedback.

i've replaced it with a new version which scales the node size according to the pagerank. i agree that the graph is a bit messy with all these connections floating around but it was also the intention to show the density of references between films.

here's a version with fewer nodes: http://zegoggl.es/svg/imdb_top_50.svg

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