Movies and Actors: Mapping the Internet Movie Database

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Conference object 01 Jul 2007Publisher:IEEEJournal:2007 11th International Conference Information Visualization (IV '07) (issn: 1550-6037,

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Authors: Bruce W. Herr; Weimao Ke; Elisha F. Hardy; Katy Börner;

doi: 10.1109/iv.2007.78

Movies and Actors: Mapping the Internet Movie Database

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This paper presents the results of an analysis and visualization of 428,440 movies from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) provided for the Graph Drawing 2005 contest. Simple statistics are presented as well as a tapestry of all movies with an overlay of the giant component of the co-actor network. Academy award winners are highlighted. Major insights are discussed.

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