To time with the Oscars this weekend, we at the Information Is Beautiful Awards ran a Hollywood visualisation challenge. We shared a massive dataset of film data - covering the grosses, opening weekends, genres, review scores of every major Hollywood release of the last five years.. Then asked people to create interactive visualisations of the data.
What came back was amazing, unexpected, beautiful and crazy.
Below are a couple of the most popular contributions. See if you can use them to predict who'll win Best Picture this weekend.
Filmstrips
![Information is Beautiful Hollywood interactive](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/2/24/1330091190185/Information-is-Beautiful--005.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none)
By Tom Evans
This beautifully minimal viz allows you to rifle numbers, rearrange releases and zoom in to detail (using your mouse wheel or equivalent).
Hollywood Data Explorer
![Information is Beautiful Hollywood interactive](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/2/24/1330091240452/Information-is-Beautiful--005.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none)
James Fisher
Pared down but powerful filtering engine to let you balance ratings, grosses, genre and year to pull out the patterns and outliers.
Play with the rest of the entries.
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My book of infographic exploria, is called Information Is Beautiful. (HarperCollins 2009). In the US, the book's called The Visual Miscellaneum
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