A chart and some thoughts. That is all.
(Apologies - email updated with PDF attached)
This week I looked into the films of Sofia Coppola. I pulled together a little data set from information available on Wikipedia and Box-Office Mojo. I excluded On the Rocks as being made for appleTV, the data wasn’t really comparable.
Once I got all the data, I fired up R and standardised each of the variables. What you see are petals that are scaled from the lowest to highest value across each measure. You get an overall view of each movie, but you can also compare across the petal colours, so looking at all the pink petals (the running time), you can see the shortest and longest film (and how each compares to the average which are the grey shapes sitting behind each petal).
I love the dreamy feminised spaces that Coppola has created in some of her films. I wanted to try and create that floaty feeling with this weeks work.
There is a PDF attached so you can zoom in and have an explore.
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This newsletter was created on Gadigal Land. Just up the river from where I live, pictures and marks were made on rocks to share stories about the world with others, and they were put there tens of thousands of years ago. I want to acknowledge that this tradition of story telling and using images to communicate and pass on information is nothing new - and the Custodians of this unceded land were here, and doing it first.