Not Just a Datum

So for my next analysis, I wanted to look at the number of films released in each genre over several years. I chose the years 1940 to 2016. I obtained the film genre data from The MovieLens project at GroupLens  Since there were a number of films released in the current period, I chose to log transform the data. Below is the resulting graph.  Currently, the most popular film genres to release are dramas and comedies. Eerily, it seems like we like to be as serious as we are silly. The code used to generate this graph will be published shortly.

Mitch Hedberg Mitch Hedberg would be the king of twitter if he was alive today. To honor him, I've decided to analyze some of his top jokes. This will be done using R's text mining package, tm , as well as SnowballC , wordcloud , and viridis . To start, I scraped this BuzzFeed article to compile a .csv of the jokes. Mitch Hedberg's six shortest jokes consisted of 8, 9, 10, and 11 words, and are written below. Dogs are forever in the pushup position. A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer. I remixed the remix… it was back to normal. A burrito is a sleeping bag for ground beef! I tried to walk into Target… but I missed. I drank some boiling water… because I wanted to whistle. In contrast, Mitch's six longest jokes surprisingly consisted of 141, 131, 109, 103, 96, and 92 words. You know when you go to a restaurant on the weekends, it’s busy, so they start a waiting list? They start calling out names, they say Dufrane, party of two. Table ready fo

On Screen Deaths of Unfortunate Characters in Friday the 13^th Films As an 80s horror film junkie, I wanted to know how Jason Voorhees's slasher tendency has changed over time. So I went through IMDB and found the reported deaths done by both Jason and secondary characters. I then compiled the data into a single .csv file, shown below: dat ## name part kills jasonkills ## 1 Friday the 13th (1980) 1 10 0 ## 2 Friday the 13th Part II 2 8 8 ## 3 Friday the 13th Part III 3 10 10 ## 4 Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter 4 13 13 ## 5 Friday the 13th: A New Beginning 5 19 0 ## 6 Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI 6 17 17 ## 7 Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood 7 15 15 ##