tomzhang255/imd3.js

IMD3.js

Intro

A movie analytics storyboard made for Harvard University's Fall 2022 CS 171 final project, by:

Tom Zhang, Wilson Lama, and Teddy Lin.

Video Demo

https://youtu.be/lWeFLpjjOSw

How to Run the App

Our app is hosted with GitHub Pages. Navigate to wilson-lama.github.io/IMD3.js

Libraries Used

• D3.js
• Bootstrap
• Scroll Magic

Data Description

We got most of our data from IMDb's public datasets.

The datasets that we used in our project include the following:

title.basics.tsv - Contains the following information for titles:

• tconst (string, categorical) - alphanumeric unique identifier of the title
• titleType (string, categorical) – the type/format of the title (e.g. movie, short, tvseries, tvepisode, video, etc)
• primaryTitle (string, categorical) – the more popular title / the title used by the filmmakers on promotional materials at the point of release
• originalTitle (string, categorical) - original title, in the original language
• isAdult (boolean, categorical) - 0: non-adult title; 1: adult title
• startYear (YYYY, quantitative) – represents the release year of a title. In the case of TV Series, it is the series start year
• endYear (YYYY, quantitative) – TV Series end year. ‘\N’ for all other title types
• runtimeMinutes (quantitative) – primary runtime of the title, in minutes
• genres (string array, quantitative) – includes up to three genres associated with the title

title.principals.tsv – Contains the principal cast/crew for titles

• tconst (string, categorical) - alphanumeric unique identifier of the title
• ordering (integer, categorical) – a number to uniquely identify rows for a given titleId
• nconst (string, categorical) - alphanumeric unique identifier of the name/person
• category (string, categorical) - the category of job that person was in
• job (string, categorical) - the specific job title if applicable, else '\N'
• characters (string, categorical) - the name of the character played if applicable, else '\N'

title.ratings.tsv – Contains the IMDb rating and votes information for titles

• tconst (string, categorical) - alphanumeric unique identifier of the title
• averageRating (quantitative) – weighted average of all the individual user ratings
• numVotes (quantitative) - number of votes the title has received

popular.movies.tsv - Contains the top 200 movies by revenue

• rank (quantitative) - rank of movie by total revenue
• movie (string, categorical) - title of the movie
• revenue (quantitative) - total revenue grossed by this movie
• year (YYYY, quantitative) - release year of the movie
• leo (binary, quantitative) - 1 if Leonardo DiCaprio starred in this movie, 0 if he did not