Design for Visualizing Movie Data

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Design for Visualizing Movie Data

• Amit Prakash Sawant

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Movie Dataset

• Movie Recommendations
• Title
• Year of release
• Length
• Genre (a movie can have multiple genres)
• Expected user rating

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Hand Design
Data-feature Mappings Title -gt angular
position Year -gt radius of glyph Length -gt
hue Genre -gt location within the arc User rating
-gt radial position
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Hand Design (update 1)
Data-feature Mappings Title -gt angular
position Year -gt radius of glyph Length -gt
hue Genre -gt location within the arc User rating
-gt radial position
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Issues

• A movie with more than one genre is shown more
  than once
• Limit on the number of movies that can be
  displayed particularly if they have low expected
  user rating
• Inefficient use of screen space if movie titles
  do not start with different alphabets

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Hand Design (update 2)
Data-feature Mappings Title -gt angular
position Year -gt size of glyph Length -gt
hue Genre -gt glyph is divided into 4
regions Action, Comedy, Drama, and Romance
(top to bottom) User rating -gt radial
position
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Compare Movie Recommendations
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Animation