Data Visualization of A Movie Loverβs Guide to New York
The skills the author demoed here can be learned through taking Data Science with Machine Learning bootcamp with NYC Data Science Academy.
The web application NYC movie locations guide is a tool designed to aid the data visualization, analysis and exploration of movies that have been filmed in New York City for the past several decades. This app was built with R and Shiny and it is designed so that any movie lovers can use it.
Here is the link to the app: Β https://yabinfan.shinyapps.io/movie_loc/
Carrie BradshawΒ apartmentΒ from Sex and the City.
Motivations:
Have you ever wondered where your favorite TV shows and Films were shot?β
Last year, my best friend came to New York to visit me,Β We are both massive film fans and I thought it might be a good idea to book a tour taking us round some of the most memorable filming locations in the city. For example, he's not a fan of Sex and The city orΒ Gossip Girl which most of the ones I've come across seem to focus on. He is however, a huge Science fiction movie fan, we both love Spider man and TheΒ Dark KnightΒ Rises.Β However, I'm struggling to find something suitable.
Like most of the New Yorkers, I love New York City and I love movies. Then , why not combine them two together?
If thereβs one place outside of HollywoodΒ that is inextricably connected to the movies, it is New York City. βSpiderman,β King KongΒ οΌβΒ TheΒ Dark KnightΒ Rises,β βBreakfast at Tiffanyβs,β βSpiderman,β β βSex and the Cityβ: from rom-coms to sci-fi thrillers, New York City has been home to many iconic movie sets. According to theΒ Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting,Β New York is among the world's most filmed citiesβin 2011, for example, 188 films were shot on location in the five boroughs, along with 23 primetime episodic television series.
Data source:
NYC Open Data
Kaggle dataset : IMDB 5000
Data
1 . Movie Locations:Β Clicking on the first option takes you to map , youβll see lots of colorful circlesΒ and by clicking on them, gives the film title, poster, and other movie information.Β The color of theΒ map's markersΒ categorizedΒ as Comedy, Romance, Action, Thriller etc. You can choose the filter to search on the map by year, IMDB score and Genres
2. Β Movie analysis: Graphs to show the changes over the years and IMDBΒ scores
3. Β Wordcloud (New York Movie Theme):Β You can create an image with the most frequent terms with the optionsΒ Minimum Frequency(minimum value that a word has to appear so that it can be shown) andΒ Maximum Number of Wordsdisplayed option. In that way, you will find out Β what are the words the Directors use the most in the movie titleΒ when they film the movies in NYC
4. You can search the table from the find your film tab by the name of the film, directors.
Future Possible Work:
- Web scraping more data to make the map more informative
- Add street view to show the user what the location actually looks like
- Search by location and actor
- Build a form to collect data from a userβs so user can contribute more data to the location map.
- Build a World movie location map data. π
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