links for 2009-02-15 at paulcarvill.com, the home of Paul Carvill on the web

• UK cinema box office info 1998 – 2008
  My first pop at showing the relative UK opening box office figures, and subsequent weeks, for films going back to 1998. I drew the graphic using Canvas, with data scraped out of IMDb. This links to an image, as the original is quite slow and unwieldy, but I plan to optimise that next.

  The data is copyright Nielsen, so I purposely haven't put too much information into the chart, just a couple of film title so you can see what's going on. I think it makes quite an attractive image on its own, although I'd like to add a money scale, try and colour code the seasons of the year a little more accurately, perhaps add in some useful dates like the Oscars and Baftas etc. I'd really like to be able to identify more of the films but I suppose I'll have to work out the copyright issues, or see if anyone has any freely available data to use.

  (tags: datavisualization graph chart cinema film boxoffice data)

This entry was posted on Sunday, February 15th, 2009 at 11:04 pm and is filed under Links. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.