Popcorn and Politics | About | Presentation | API
Popcorn & Politics is a data visualization of movies, their audience and their impact on the 2008 US Presidential race. Movie producers use their personal fortunes to donate money to political campaigns. Their fortunes are fueled by ticket sales. In this visualization, you can see the connection from movies to candidates and the donation amounts made by the producers.
We used a simple design visualization, applying design strategies from Edward Tufte. We wanted a clean, simple design that would allow the data to tell the story. We also applied a Sankey Diagram, because it combined the use of volume and network connections which is what we needed to show.
The database is compiled with information from Wikipedia, IMDB, Film-releases.com, the NYTimes API and the FEC. A database was built out that contains movies, their producers, the donation amounts from the producers, and the US presidential candidates they contributed towards.
Ramsey Nasser | ramseynasser[at]gmail[dot]com
Ramsey is a designer in the MFA Design & Technology program at Parsons, The New School for Design. Before coming to Parsons, Ramsey was studying Computer Science at the American University in Lebanon.
Aaron Druck | aldruck[at]gmail[dot]com
Aaron is a designer in the MFA Design & Technology program at Parsons, The New School for Design. He was a web designer at ESPN before coming to Parsons, and is interested in web, mobile and interaction design. He currently resides in Brooklyn.
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