Head Coach Andy set DS12 Star Wars as our theme for our first dashboard in dashboard week. As someone who is totally unfamiliar with Star Wars (oooops), I decided to tackle the film section of the API.

We have been granted more time today than we will for the rest of the week. It was a nice change of pace compared to the past three weeks being all client projects and learning on the side.

Since the film part of the SWAPI (Star Wars API) had little data (just film title, episode ID, release date, and synopsis), I had decided to join the dataset to IMDb’s dataset containing IMDb scores, budget and North American box office gross.

Check out the viz!