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Popcorn and Politics
New York Times Data Visualization by Aaron Druck and Ramsey Nasser
Concepts
• Reveal how your money flows from a movie ticket to a 2008 Political Candidate
• Connection between films and politicians • Media bias • Transparency
Popcorn & Politics: Concept
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The Story
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Specifically a movie (producers)
Audience
Popcorn & Politics: Domains
• Consumers • Voters • Politicians • Moviegoers • Producers
Design Question
• Where does your money go when you buy a movie ticket?
• Is the film industry left-leaning in support?
• Is there a connection between the film industry and political machine?
• Is Campaign Finance Reform effective?
Popcorn & Politics: Research
Precedents
• Napolean’s March • CEO Politics • Fundrace 2008 • TheyRule • MovieCharts
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March of Napolean’s troops to Moscow 1861
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CEO Politics
h"p://www.ceocampaigncontribu4ons.info/ Popcorn & Politics: Research
Fundrace 2008
http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/
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TheyRule
h"p://www.theyrule.net/
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MovieCharts
http://www.xach.com/moviecharts/2008.html
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Visualization Concepts
• Bars/lines • Network • Minimal/simple • Clean • Essentialist
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Edward Tufte
• More data, less data ink • No legend • No grid • Chart junk
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Process
• Find relationship in data • Build local database by pooling multiple
data sources • Visualize the data • Tell compelling, relevant story
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Process: The Data
Movies > Producers > Donations > Candidates
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Why Producers?
• "Producers seldom have a set salary, because they get a percentage of a show's earnings or ticket sales.” - Dept of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Database (XML)
• Movie (The Dark Knight) – Producer (John Doe)
• Candidate (Barack Obama) • Donation ($500)
– Producer (Jane Smith) • Candidate (John McCain) • Donation ($2300)
• http://api.popcornandpolitics.com/movies/Hancock
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Technology
• SQLite - Database • Ruby – Scraping scripts/backend/API • Flex/MXML- v1.0 • Flash/AS3 – v2.0
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Prototype I
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Prototype 2
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Prototype 3
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Popcorn & Politics v1.0
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2nd round of sketches
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Final Revisions
• Sankey Graphs
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Final Revisions
• Popcorn and Politics Sankey
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Final Revisions
• Crisp • Minimal • One-view • Tufte
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Popcorn & Politics v2.0
• “Tortilla Heaven” > producer Gilbert Dumontet > $500 to Giuliani and $250 to Richardson • “One Missed Call” > producer Broderick Johnson > $2300 to Obama • “Rambo” > producer George Furla > $2300 to McCain
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Popcorn & Politics v2.1
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Conclusion
- Obama received a lot of donations. - “I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry”
donated to McCain. - Supreme Court ruling rejecting limits on
corporate spending on political campaigns
Next Steps
• P&P as a tool • Possibly release Sankey library • Optimize public API • Create large PDF prints of graphs
Thank you!
http://www.popcornandpolitics.com
Ramsey Nasser http://www.ramseynasser.com
Aaron Druck http://a.parsons.edu/~druca992/blog/