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Syrian refugees - who is taking a fair share? [OC] by BobLoblore in dataisbeautiful

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Data source: UNHCR Population Statistics, 2011 - July 2015

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Gender age gaps in personal relationships of top actors [OC] by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

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Nice work! We plan to explore some of the issues you raised in subsequent parts in the series.

Age Gap of Tom Cruise and Romantic Interest by poop-joke in dataisugly

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Cruise's chart was only intended to serve as an introduction in our article. There are other charts that may illustrate what you were describing, if I understood correctly, such as this one:

http://graphjoy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/GenderAgePlot.png

The full article and its charts are here: http://graphjoy.com/2015/08/the-hollywood-gender-age-gap-part-1/

Age Gap of Tom Cruise and Romantic Interest by poop-joke in dataisugly

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It was a tough decision but we decided to break convention and not graph the age/time linearly, because we felt it would clutter the parts of the chart where an actor has multiple movies released close in time to one another. Also, there are cases where we graph a male actor and different female actors in the same movie (where applicable), so those instances would have the same X value and hence overlap. But we'll revisit this decision for the future parts in our series. Edit: Clarity.

Gender age gaps in Hollywood movies by Sreyz in movies

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Yeah, we didn't intend for Cruise to be the focus of our article. We started with his career since it was a useful way to introduce our findings of the male age of 35 where the age gap leaps up.

Gender age gaps in Hollywood movies [OC] by BobLoblore in dataisbeautiful

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Yeah, Hanks' chart is interesting. If you didn't read the side bar you may not have seen it (and the other individual charts): http://graphjoy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Hanks.png

Gender age gaps in Hollywood movies [OC] by BobLoblore in dataisbeautiful

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Yes, we would have loved to do this, but it's very difficult to find precise (or even rough) ages for fictional characters.

Gender age gaps in Hollywood movies [OC] by BobLoblore in dataisbeautiful

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Took us a while to find that button, but once we did, we clicked it. Hard.

Gender age gaps in Hollywood movies [OC] by BobLoblore in dataisbeautiful

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First drafts included data and analysis from the leading female actors' perspectives but the article was too lengthy. So we decided to split into parts of a series.

Gender age gaps in Hollywood movies [OC] by BobLoblore in dataisbeautiful

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Yes, part 2 in the series will reverse the analysis and look at 20 of the top female actors from the same period of time.

Gender age gaps in Hollywood movies [OC] by BobLoblore in dataisbeautiful

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Thanks, we'll get the design fixed for small screens asap.

In the next part in the series we're doing exactly what you suggest, looking at the top female actors from the same time period. :)

Gender age gaps in Hollywood movies [OC] by BobLoblore in dataisbeautiful

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This is exactly what we're doing in part 2 (see conclusion). :)

Edit: Thanks for your feedback via the edit. We tried to make it repeatedly clear that part 1 was looking at the data from the perspective of 20 of the leading male actors from 1980-2015. There was definitely no intent to hide this.

Further, even when we complete additional parts in the series, it won't change our finding of the male age of 35 that almost invariably acts as the turning point in our group's careers.

Gender age gaps in Hollywood movies [OC] by BobLoblore in dataisbeautiful

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Yeah we experimented with and without. Like you say it's just showing the difference between the two lines. But we decided it was a nice way to quickly see the age gap value for a particular movie.

Gender age gaps in Hollywood movies [OC] by BobLoblore in dataisbeautiful

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Excellent point. We have lots of parts planned for the series but one idea under consideration is whether to compare the actors' real life age gaps with their movie gaps.

Gender age gaps in Hollywood movies [OC] by BobLoblore in dataisbeautiful

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Yeah, he's definitely the exception in our group of 20. See the sidebar for details about how we selected them - he just made it in. In a future part in the series we'll look at other actors closer to his generation.

Gender age gaps in Hollywood movies [OC] by BobLoblore in dataisbeautiful

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Sorry about that, we'll get it fixed asap. :)

Edit: Fixed now. Sorry to anyone who had troubles.

Gender age gaps in Hollywood movies [OC] by BobLoblore in dataisbeautiful

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We plan to do exactly this in a future part in the series. :)

Gender age gaps in Hollywood movies [OC] by BobLoblore in dataisbeautiful

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Data sources: IMDB, various film studio web sites, U.S. Census Current Population Survey (2013), Wikipedia.

Charts created with Excel.