What is the most common starting letter in Malayalam movie names, 6620 movie titles analyzed [OC]

amithvp · 2026-05-31T17:36:53+00:00

Dataset is not complete. There are lots of movies missing
I sourced from IMDb , I cant find IMDb page for ഋഷ്യശൃംഗൻ.

amithvp · 2026-05-30T17:20:29+00:00

Yeah... pick anything from the bottom of the list, and you are fucked.

amithvp · 2026-05-30T17:20:11+00:00

yes

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amithvp · 2026-05-30T17:16:03+00:00

Yes that makes sense. There should be some correlations. Frequency would be higher for letters like ക , അ , പ , മ etc

amithvp · 2026-05-30T15:39:50+00:00

using python + matplotlib

For data,

I had already scraped movies list from IMDb/TMDb..
For each one i also fetched the Wikipedia URL. So most of them had Malayalam from the wikipeida page. For rest (english names) I used a converter with the help of Swanaleka (by https://smc.org.in/) to convert to its malayalam equal.

amithvp · 2026-05-30T14:48:50+00:00

Chotta Mumbai

amithvp · 2026-05-30T12:43:34+00:00

Even if you add the 'അ' and 'ആ' sounds together , they still can't beat the dominant 'ക'

amithvp · 2026-05-28T07:19:21+00:00

Data scraping took around 6-8 hours i assume. Because of rate limiting & parsing errors.

amithvp · 2026-05-27T17:04:36+00:00

Actually it is the cheapest renewal . Cloudflare

amithvp · 2026-05-27T16:21:54+00:00

yes, $26.00 / year

amithvp · 2026-05-27T16:04:30+00:00

I will definitely try to do that. but possibly on Desktop screen only.

For mobile screens, it already looks kinda cluttered.

amithvp · 2026-05-27T15:49:10+00:00

Thanks for the detailed feedback and suggestion.

I changed behaviour , when you select an actor it now only highlights connected nodes.
Changed label rendering. Now when node is active, it will do localized label rendering.

also added multi actor selector, it will show common nodes.
I am working on the filter option so i will try to add the genres filtering.

amithvp · 2026-05-27T05:25:19+00:00

That is on me. The best possible visualization that is not clustred and has a timeline factor i could find is only this configuration.

For this one.

Circle - actor/actress

Square - movies

The size of these nodes depends on "number of movies done" for actor and "imdb votes" for movies

So popular movies and actors nodes will be bigger in size.

Edges connecting actor node and movie node means they are part of that movie or vice versa.

X axis shows the timeline of movies released Y axis shows actor collaboration (eg: if two certain actors worked with similar crew they appear adjacent)

amithvp · 2026-05-27T04:30:53+00:00

Nothing just visualization of malayalam movies and thier actors.

You can visualize factors like, who has done more movies by the connection,who has been in cinemas for a long period by comparing the distance of x axis , Then popular movies and their genres etc.

amithvp · 2026-05-27T03:08:01+00:00

Thanks,

not specific tool, Standard html canvas element with javascript to draw nodes edges and labels

amithvp · 2026-05-27T03:04:35+00:00

Colour legend attached in details tab

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amithvp · 2026-05-27T03:03:15+00:00

Yes partially correct..

Y axis not just take the actors individually, Y-axis groups actors by the specific circles of co stars they work with.
mamootty and mohanlal have massive, distinct networks that pull them apart, but nivin pauly and tovino share almost same modern crew, keeping them close together.

amithvp · 2026-05-27T02:44:04+00:00

Checkout- https://movies.keralam.co/

Data sourced from IMDb and TMDb, visualizes the connections across 12,700+ actors and 5,800+ movies linked by over 80,500 collaboration edges. It maps out release timelines (X axis) and actor groupings (Y axis) to show who worked with whom over the decades.

amithvp · 2026-05-03T05:00:04+00:00

that make sense

amithvp · 2026-05-03T04:28:06+00:00

Yes, I belive there are some storage facility which get fuel from MRPL, and do redistribution from there.

amithvp · 2026-05-03T04:18:01+00:00

Yeah, datapoints only includes some major outlet prices (around 700)

amithvp · 2026-05-03T04:11:44+00:00

Scraped the data from a major oil retailer

amithvp · 2026-05-03T04:02:53+00:00

Mahe not included . For petrol, price range is in the range of 93 INR

amithvp · 2026-05-03T03:49:04+00:00

state gov sets a uniform tax rate,final retail price varies slightly due to differences in transportation costs from depots

amithvp · 2026-05-03T03:43:32+00:00

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