CineVis

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This plot shows financial and rating data about recent films. Some findings from using this data:

Paranormal Activity made so much money from such a small budget that is blows all of the scales for profitability.
Tangled cost a lot, but didn't bring in nearly as much as other big budget movies.
The critics liked Drag me to Hell a lot more than the audiences - how could anyone not like that movie?
Superhero, vampire, and Harry Potter movies all have big opening weekend, but no film raked in anywhere near as much as Avatar.

The data includes films from 2008-2011. The data set is from the in the Information is Beautiful 'Hollywood Budgets' Challenge. The data was pruned to remove some films with missing data.

Profitability : Percent of budget recovered
Budget : Cost, in millions US Dollars
Worldwide Gross : Total revenue, in millions US Dollars
Domestic Gross : US revenue, in millions US Dollars
Foreign Gross : non-US revenue, in millions US Dollars
Opening Weekend Theaters : Number of US Theaters
Opening Weekend Revenue : Revenue, in millions US Dollars
Opening Weekend per Cinema : Average per cinema on opening weekend, in US Dollars
Audience Rating : Average audience score from Rotten Tomatoes, score: 1-100
Critic Rating : Average meta score of critical reviews from Rotten Tomatoes, score: 1-100
Studio : Name of the lead studio
Story : Name of the story type
Genre : Name of the genre from IMDB
Oscar : Names of Academy Award categories

Download the JSON movie data

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During the day John Goodall is a Research Scientist at ORNL who uses visual analytics to solve various problems.

On twitter, where he posts about infovis, d3, node.js and various other topics: @johnrgoodall

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CineVis Explore Film Budgets, Revenues & Ratings