Dashboard Day 2 - IMDb Crime Movies

Day 2 of Dashboard Week was based on the entire IMDb dataset. It consisted of every show/movie, directors and actors listed on the website.

I decided to focus my Viz on my favourite genre, Crime movies. It's well understood that the old-school crime movies were ledgendary. However, were they better than their more modern counterparts?

I initially wanted to compare movies by the years based on their ratings and actors. I quickly realised that there was no way to evaluate actor ratings to see if this correlated to the movies ratings. I was therefore left to comparing each movie soley by its rating.

A few tips from today's project:

  • Focus on a few outstanding graphs which can be filtered to a specific show/movie
  • Glimps through the data in the beginning but then focus on building a plan for the dashboard
  • Add instructions throughout the dashboard
  • Allocate appropriate time to each section of the dashboard creation.
Author:
Muhammad Choudhury
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