Percentage of Dialogue Spoken by Male and Female Characters in Disney Screenplays
graph from Hannah Anderson and Matt Daniels/The Pudding; slow reveal by Jenna Laib with support for some questions from Dr. B Waid
(Slide Deck includes notes and questions to elicit discourse)
Type of Graph: bar graph
Visualization Source: Anderson, Hanah and Matt Daniels. “The Largest Ever Analysis of Film Dialogue by Gender: 2,000 scripts, 25,000 actors, 4 million lines.” The Pudding: April 2016.
Data Source: Hanah Anderson and Matt Daniels, for The Pudding
Anderson and Daniels explain why they performed this analysis, and how they did it, including offering their sources in a google doc and data on Github. There is also an FAQ on concerns about methodology and data. All of these links are from their The Pudding article, “The Largest Ever Analysis of Film Dialogue by Gender: 2,000 scripts, 25,000 actors, 4 million lines.”
Potential Math Content: stacked bar graph, percentages, data collection methodology, noticing trends
Potential Content Connections: film, pop culture, movies
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