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09-29-2016, 02:51 AM
Developer breaks 'The Simpsons' down by the numbers
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In the last 27 years, the writers and animators behind The Simpsons have built a vast fictional world that presents plenty of opportunities for analysis.*
Todd W. Schneider, a developer at Genius, took a deep dive into Simpsons data using scripts pulled from Simpsons World (http://www.simpsonsworld.com/). From there, he wrote code that organizes dialogue by character and then ranks each character by number of words spoken.
Schneider's findings, published in a post on his personal website (http://toddwschneider.com/posts/the-simpsons-by-the-data/), cover both main and supporting character dialogue and the locations within the show where these conversations take place. His piece also takes a larger look at the show's declining ratings, and how those numbers stack up against wider trends in TV viewership. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/28/the-simpsons-data-analysis/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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In the last 27 years, the writers and animators behind The Simpsons have built a vast fictional world that presents plenty of opportunities for analysis.*
Todd W. Schneider, a developer at Genius, took a deep dive into Simpsons data using scripts pulled from Simpsons World (http://www.simpsonsworld.com/). From there, he wrote code that organizes dialogue by character and then ranks each character by number of words spoken.
Schneider's findings, published in a post on his personal website (http://toddwschneider.com/posts/the-simpsons-by-the-data/), cover both main and supporting character dialogue and the locations within the show where these conversations take place. His piece also takes a larger look at the show's declining ratings, and how those numbers stack up against wider trends in TV viewership. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/28/the-simpsons-data-analysis/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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