Age when receiving the Academy Award for Best Actor/ess (1929-2020)
graph and slow reveal by Anna Blinstein (@ablinstein)
Type of Graph: box plot
Source: Wikipedia (“List of Academy Award for Best Actor winners by age“)
Paired Text:
Guo, Jeff. “Why the age of 40 is so important in Hollywood.” Washington Post, September 19, 2016.
Potential Math Content: box plots, box and whisker plots, outliers, interquartile range, range, percentile, quartiles
Potential Content Connections: actors, film, pop culture, media, gender
