Developer breaks 'The Simpsons' down by the numbers
 

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. 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, 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...

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