IMDB Movie Explorer

Inspired by Garrett Grolemund's excellent 'Movie Explorer' which utilized the Open Movie Db

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My implementation uses Hadley Wickham's IMDB dataset included in the ggplot2 package.

library(ggplot2) 
dim(movies)

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Unlike the original, my IMDB Movie Explorer is designed for exploratory correlational and time-course analyses of the IMDB movie data.

Plot: Long, Drawn-Out Dramas...

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Plot: That IMDB Users Seem to Enjoy?

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Table: Star Trek Through the Years

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Pros and Cons

Pros

  • Tabbed panel interface (Plots, Table, Help, Codebook)
  • Fine control over data subsetting and ggplot2 functionality (faceting, colour/fill, point aesthetics)
  • Reactive summary statistics displayed under the plot
  • Javascript-based Datatable that's sortable and searchable
  • Examine the underlying distribution using the histogram feature

Cons

  • Lacks plot tooltip interactivity due to use of ggplot2 instead of ggvis or rCharts. As a result, there is no meaningul ability to interact with the movie title variable in the Plot panel (title searches can be performed in the Table panel).
  • The IMDB dataset is, in many ways inferior to the Open Movie Db. For example, there is no genre category and genres are broken down into
  • More work for the future! In the meantime, take a spin!