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Marvel Cinematic Universe Screen Time Sankey


Screen time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe...

This is not the most helpful of charts, but these types of visualizations can provide insights on pathways and weights of variables.

Initially a bit of fun I had when learning how to create these charts for an internal report, I figured I would finish it off. The data comes from IMDB and follows many main characters (on the left) on-screen time throughout all current MCU films (on the right) with screen time shown by the thickness of the link between character and film.*

I learned with these charts that the googleViz Sankey charts are not the easiest to manipulate. Changing the colors to match the hero colors was a challenge and the actual ordering of nodes and links is restricted by how the chart is put together. For example the Iron Man films are out of order as both 1 and 3 have fewer crossover characters, so Iron Man 2 is moved to the bottom to accommodate the inclusion of From nodes on the left.

It would have been nice to link characters and show in order of film release date, but maybe the plotly or shiny charts have more options to get a cleaner presentation.  


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*There are many more characters that crossover between these films, and there could be a much larger chart made, but I tried to keep this to main characters that crossover several films.