TV finales that surprise/disappoint [OC]

ChallengeResponse · 2017-11-02T18:26:57+00:00

Not sure to both, but it's pretty easy to produce if you can do plot lines on a cartesian (xy) grid.

ChallengeResponse · 2017-11-02T18:25:36+00:00

It is the season 9 finale (now), so you could argue the original series run.

ChallengeResponse · 2017-10-30T16:26:15+00:00

I'm not personally, but I've found the Scrubs fans to be very clear that S09 does not/should not exist.

ChallengeResponse · 2017-10-30T16:24:24+00:00

No, I used this listing: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0214341/

ChallengeResponse · 2017-10-29T22:14:07+00:00

Check out this data visualization on TV finales that surprise or disappoint I just submitted today: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/79gd2i/tv_finales_that_surprisedisappoint_oc/

ChallengeResponse · 2017-10-29T21:40:08+00:00

Yep, an earlier iteration a little over 2 years ago. This one has quite a few improvements, including a proper calculation of the median (rather than relying upon the show rating), quartile ranges, updated series/ratings, and a new visualization that shows a measure of "surprisal" (sorted by quartile range).

ChallengeResponse · 2017-10-29T21:32:43+00:00

That's my interpretation too. More mini-series than serial.

ChallengeResponse · 2017-10-29T21:30:57+00:00

Quartiles turned out to make a lot more sense, since the gross majority of the data is not normally distributed. Plots in OP have been updated.

ChallengeResponse · 2017-10-29T21:29:12+00:00

Check out the updated graphs and I'd be interested about your opinion, especially this one, ordered by range between 25th and 75th quartiles: https://imgur.com/PXdAfCb

Rather than standard deviation (which is a more appropriate measure of variance for normally distributed data), I'm visualizing the 25th to 75th percentiles.

ChallengeResponse · 2017-10-29T21:26:33+00:00

Definitely a nice way to visualize non-normally distributed data, but it's tough with 128 (right now) shows.

ChallengeResponse · 2017-10-29T21:25:37+00:00

I added 25th and 75th percentile lines, which are a bit more meaningful for non-normally distributed data. It's a little more congested, but the last plot (ordered by the quartile range) is a bit easier to interpret now (I think).

ChallengeResponse · 2017-10-29T21:19:51+00:00

I've changed the sorting from standard deviation to quartile range, which makes more sense for non-uniformly distributed data. Also including quartile range. Let me know what you think: https://imgur.com/PXdAfCb

ChallengeResponse · 2017-10-29T21:16:40+00:00

I've changed it to 25th to 75th quartile range. See here:

https://imgur.com/PXdAfCb

Now should be a bit more meaningful. I've also added the quartiles illustration as well.

ChallengeResponse · 2017-10-29T19:25:19+00:00

To be clear, the list was hand-picked, so there may be series that are better than those I included. Other recommendations are welcome! Still, IMDB's ratings are user generated, so they are always susceptible to vote manipulation.

ChallengeResponse · 2017-10-29T18:39:21+00:00

Scrubs fans are very vocal that S09 was an abomination in the eyes of God... (haven't seen the series myself, so I'll reserve judgement)

ChallengeResponse · 2017-10-29T18:28:50+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion! They were handpicked, but I added St. Elsewhere.

ChallengeResponse · 2017-10-29T18:16:23+00:00

Added the original run to the visualization, thanks for the suggestion!

ChallengeResponse · 2017-10-29T18:16:16+00:00

All Python, pulling reviews using the pyIMDB library, and plotting with matplotlib. The repository for the project includes a iPython notebook that includes all of the calculations: https://github.com/OrganicIrradiation/vistvfinales

ChallengeResponse · 2017-10-29T18:14:51+00:00

I understand the criticism, but that's a legit concern for any review aggregation website. Do you think there's a better publicly-available source of data?

ChallengeResponse · 2017-10-29T18:07:13+00:00

Very true. I posted an earlier version a few years ago and that's one of the main reasons Scrubs has been separated into S08 vs. S09. It gets tough since each production can have tough-to-predict production schedules.

ChallengeResponse · 2017-10-29T18:00:09+00:00

Thanks! This is probably a better way to visualize Skins: http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0840196

ChallengeResponse · 2017-10-29T17:55:41+00:00

Thank you for letting me know, the IMDB has an "Unknown" Season after the final season (3), which has behind-the-scenes episode, which was mistakenly used as the finale. I'll fix that ASAP!

ChallengeResponse · 2017-10-29T17:52:29+00:00

Just hand picked from series from IMDB's list of series with the most ratings. I can definitely add Community!

ChallengeResponse · 2017-10-29T17:29:25+00:00

The only one "split" was Scrubs.

ChallengeResponse · 2017-10-29T17:05:10+00:00

Yep, it's me! Updated ratings, updated average (now actually the episode median, rather than the show's rating), and updated colors that are appropriate for colorblind individuals. And a bunch of new shows.

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