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Show HN: An interactive graph of film ratings built with D3 and AngularJS

77 points by geelen 14y ago

johnb 14y ago
BTW, if you're signed in you'll be redirected to your activity feed - try http://goodfil.ms/graph http://goodfil.ms/graph in that case
- brianfryer 14y ago
  Thanks; should've read the comments first.
caffeineninja 14y ago
This is pretty awesome. Couple things: 1) Clicking on tabs in the graph causes you to snap to the top of the page. Adding return false; to your tab/link handler will fix that. 2) There's no explanation anywhere for the lines - what do they refer to? 3) Would be nice to be able to zoom in and pan rather than click.
- geelen 14y ago
  Thanks for the feedback. The lines just link together the 6 selected points, which are whatever's nearest to where you clicked.
  - xlevus 14y ago
    Is there any reason for this? Clicking on the Princess Bride links me to Ep6, Lost Ark, Avengers and BTTF. To me it implies that they're related or similar. But I can't see any relation or similarity across these 5 other than score.
pedalpete 14y ago
I just have to say that I think your execution is exceptional. Everything is so clearly laid out, your design is great. Even though I didn't understand the x/y axis of how you were rating the movies, it didn't matter, up and to the right just meant 'better', which was simple enough for me. If you don't mind my asking, how long have you been working on this?
- johnb 14y ago
  The whole site? The current iteration is around a year old, things were pretty solidly overhauled when we got our first seed funding. The graph specifically? Was a Glen (founding dev) & Charlie (designer) working for a few days straight.
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- geelen 14y ago
  That's our dataset of user ratings at Goodfilms.
paulgb 14y ago
If you have the data, it would be cool to see this colorized by genre and length. My guess is that dramas have a higher quality to rewatchability ratio than comedies, and that a similar relationship exists between long movies and short ones. Very cool visualization!
- brianfryer 14y ago
  > it would be cool to see this colorized by drama What a FANTASTIC idea! I'd like to discover other movies of similar genre > ... and length TV shows vs. feature-length films?
  - paulgb 14y ago
    For length, what I had was a continuous scale based on the runtime in minutes.
fuzzythinker 14y ago
Top notch design and execution! Just love the discovery line/zoom feature, very unique and useful. Minor issues: - How are the hearts calculated? - The graph is too crowded, I would put genres on the left of the graph and allow genre filtering - I expected selecting a genre will show me the graph with just that genre, it didn't happen, the graph wasn't shown. - Bug? clicking on one of the films, eg: http://goodfil.ms/film/108266-arthur http://goodfil.ms/film/108266-arthur shows a mini graph, but nothing is highlighted on it, not even the file itself. Nothing happened clicking on any of the circles (using Chrome) - I want search to be able to indicate the film on the graph - related films should also include really related films instead of ones by the "line" metric. Eg, Arthur 2011 should show older Arthur film.
pointlessjon 14y ago
Excellent work.
tlrobinson 14y ago
Very cool. It's interesting to look at the types of movies that show up in different areas of the graph: http://tlr.lt/KZoS http://tlr.lt/KZoS
minikomi 14y ago
Love looking at the outliers - particularly "The Room" over on the top left corner!
rurounijones 14y ago
Very cool, make searching for things like "Highest rated, lowest re-watchable" fun and interesting. On a side-note. In the above query one of the front-runners seems to be "Grave of the fireflies" which does not surprise me what-so-ever.

77 points by geelen 14y ago

johnb 14y ago

BTW, if you're signed in you'll be redirected to your activity feed - try http://goodfil.ms/graph http://goodfil.ms/graph in that case

brianfryer 14y ago
Thanks; should've read the comments first.

caffeineninja 14y ago

This is pretty awesome. Couple things: 1) Clicking on tabs in the graph causes you to snap to the top of the page. Adding return false; to your tab/link handler will fix that. 2) There's no explanation anywhere for the lines - what do they refer to? 3) Would be nice to be able to zoom in and pan rather than click.

geelen 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback. The lines just link together the 6 selected points, which are whatever's nearest to where you clicked.
- xlevus 14y ago
  Is there any reason for this? Clicking on the Princess Bride links me to Ep6, Lost Ark, Avengers and BTTF. To me it implies that they're related or similar. But I can't see any relation or similarity across these 5 other than score.

pedalpete 14y ago

I just have to say that I think your execution is exceptional. Everything is so clearly laid out, your design is great. Even though I didn't understand the x/y axis of how you were rating the movies, it didn't matter, up and to the right just meant 'better', which was simple enough for me. If you don't mind my asking, how long have you been working on this?

johnb 14y ago
The whole site? The current iteration is around a year old, things were pretty solidly overhauled when we got our first seed funding. The graph specifically? Was a Glen (founding dev) & Charlie (designer) working for a few days straight.

deleted 14y ago

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geelen 14y ago
That's our dataset of user ratings at Goodfilms.

paulgb 14y ago

If you have the data, it would be cool to see this colorized by genre and length. My guess is that dramas have a higher quality to rewatchability ratio than comedies, and that a similar relationship exists between long movies and short ones. Very cool visualization!

brianfryer 14y ago
> it would be cool to see this colorized by drama What a FANTASTIC idea! I'd like to discover other movies of similar genre > ... and length TV shows vs. feature-length films?
- paulgb 14y ago
  For length, what I had was a continuous scale based on the runtime in minutes.

fuzzythinker 14y ago

Top notch design and execution! Just love the discovery line/zoom feature, very unique and useful. Minor issues: - How are the hearts calculated? - The graph is too crowded, I would put genres on the left of the graph and allow genre filtering - I expected selecting a genre will show me the graph with just that genre, it didn't happen, the graph wasn't shown. - Bug? clicking on one of the films, eg: http://goodfil.ms/film/108266-arthur http://goodfil.ms/film/108266-arthur shows a mini graph, but nothing is highlighted on it, not even the file itself. Nothing happened clicking on any of the circles (using Chrome) - I want search to be able to indicate the film on the graph - related films should also include really related films instead of ones by the "line" metric. Eg, Arthur 2011 should show older Arthur film.

pointlessjon 14y ago

Excellent work.

tlrobinson 14y ago

Very cool. It's interesting to look at the types of movies that show up in different areas of the graph: http://tlr.lt/KZoS http://tlr.lt/KZoS

minikomi 14y ago

Love looking at the outliers - particularly "The Room" over on the top left corner!

rurounijones 14y ago

Very cool, make searching for things like "Highest rated, lowest re-watchable" fun and interesting. On a side-note. In the above query one of the front-runners seems to be "Grave of the fireflies" which does not surprise me what-so-ever.