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The Pudding | Polygraph
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The Pudding is a journal of visual essays. It’s a new publication from Polygraph, a collective specializing in visualization.

What is a visual essay? Imagine a New Yorker-esque longread about a complex topic, yet instead of dense prose, code, data, and animation are used to construct a different sort of story. It’s one that’s reader-driven, explorable, and embeddable into other websites.

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#data_journalism #visualization #écrire

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The Largest Ever Analysis of Film Dialogue by Gender: 2,000 scripts, 25,000 actors, 4 million lines
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Lately, Hollywood has been taking so much shit for rampant sexism and racism. The prevailing theme: white men dominate movie roles.
But it’s all rhetoric and no data, which gets us nowhere in terms of having an informed discussion. How many movies are actually about men? What changes by genre, era, or box-office revenue? What circumstances generate more diversity?
To begin answering these questions, we Googled our way to 8,000 screenplays and matched each character’s lines to an actor. From there, we compiled the number of words spoken by male and female characters across roughly 2,000 films, arguably the largest undertaking of script analysis, ever.
Let’s begin by breaking down dialogue, by gender, for just Disney films.

#cinéma #discrimination #dialogue #genre #Disney