Choose one of David Robinson’s tidytuesday screencasts, watch the video, and summarise. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeiiqmVK07qhY-wvg3IZiZQ
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“Tidy Tuesday screencast: analyzing Simpsons guest stars and dialogue in R”
It was published August 30, 2019
Hint: What’s the source of the data; what does the row represent; how many observations?; what are the variables; and what do they mean?
Each row represents different Simpsons guest stars. The source of the data is from the tidytuesday project, which gets its data on the Simpsons guest stars and other information from Github. He got the dialogue data from kaggle. Different variables are the season of the show, character number, production code, title of the episode in which they appear, the guest star’s actor name, and the role they played in the episode. He used the count function to see if certain guest stars appeared multiple times in multiple episodes.
Hint: For example, importing data, understanding the data, data exploration, etc.
He started by loading in the Simpsons data from the Github source by using readr. He then took a look at the data and ordered it by how many times each guest appeared in the show by using the count function. Then he used ggplot to plot the data. He then put them into graphs with bars to show visually the amount of times the guests have appeared.
He used a ggplot function in order to plot the data that he was finding to show the different data of Simpsons guest stars, including after filtering for who played who, and if they played as themselves,etc.
Well, Stephen Hawking playing himself the most in the Simpsons is one finding I found cool. Not the most major, however. There are many guest stars on the Simpsons. People playing themselves is pretty common as well, but more common in the first half than the second half of the show. He also found that, despite certain roles having more appearances, can have less lines than a more prominent character that appears less times, but has more of an important role in the episode or show overall.
Stephen Hawking doesn’t have any dialogue. And Sideshow Bob has more less appearances but the most dialogue out of the appearnces of other guests. Most guest stars playing themselves have very few lines.