Hello!
This ~spooky~ board will take us on a knowledge ride about horror movies through 6 decades, bringing informative cards and a chart that brings a simple conclusion.
The dataset used for this is from a challenge offered by r/dataisbeautiful on Reddit and it contains the following columns:
- Movie, Year, Director
- Jump count – How many scenes that cause a jumpscare exist
- Jumpscare rating – If the jumpscares are good (5) or not (1)
- If it is on Netflix (US) – Yes or No
- IMDB score – 0 to 100
Tools Used: MS Excel – Charts (Scatterplot, Bars), Pivot Table
Questions & Answers
The informative cards on the right can bring us some information on the movies.
And the Artisting Data awards go to…
- Movie with the most number of jumps: The Haunting in Connecticut II
- Best Jumpscares (quality): Poltergeist
- Best Jumpscares (quality) on Netflix: The Sacrament
- Director who uses jump scenes the most: Wes Craven
- Year with the most jumps (sum of all movies jumps): 2016
Congratulations to our winners and all runner ups!
As for the big chart, we’re using it to answer the question:
Do movies with high jumpscare ratings (quality) automatically have high IMDB scores?
How relevant are good jumpscares for a horror movie when porsuing a good IMDB score?
Looking at the chart, we can only see straight lines, showing no relationship.
With that, we can conclude that there is no direct correlation between quality of jumpscare scenes and IMDB scores, as we can identity movies with 5 (highest) jumpscare quality, but less than 10 IMDB score, and vice versa. Check the highlighted points below:
That concludes our board!
It was a hard one to make, since some words are confusing, such as “jumpiest”, and the data is not that easy to explore, but at least it was a fun experience to work on the visuals (fonts, icons, colors…).
See you next post!
Artisting Data 