A chart and some thoughts. That is all.
The Sydney Film Festival starts at the end of the week. I’m seeing eight films over the two weeks and I’m really looking forward to it.
I made a scraper and got all the different genre tags using rvest and made a few little triangles that are sort of inspired by projector beams. It honestly was all I had in me after compiling the data. The “height” of the beam is the number of films linked to that genre, and I built them using geom_segment - the topline started at x at a point made with max/2 and the yend going up to the max point and the bottom line starting at the same point but down the the min (always 1). I exported an svg into Illustrator and filled in the traingles and tidied up the layout. Yes, this could have been a bar chart, but where is the fun in that?
Expect more SFF next week - I’d like to look a bit more at some combos. Maybe a correlation map of genres most associated with one and other? Maybe at individual films…I’m not sure. All I know if that I have to stop compiling my data late Sunday afternoon so I have more than an hour to make the visualisation.
I hope you have had a nice week. If you are in Sydney, are you going to the festival? Let me know what you are seeing. If this message has been sent to you buy a chart loving friend, you can subscribe too if you like. Hit the big blue button and you will get a chart in your inbox every Monday.
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.