IMDb Top 250 Movies List Analysis, 3rd Edition
Has the IMDb Top 250 list’s bias towards newer movies increased over the past two years?
Excel on Overthinking It
The Karaoke Quotient
A formula for calculating how appropriate a pop song is for karaoke. Find our what your favorite song’s Karaoke Quotient is–and if it might the best karaoke song of all time.
The Law and Order Database
Together, we WILL know Jack.
Quanta of Cage: Standard Deviation of Nicolas Cage Movies’ IMDB Ratings
Nicolas Cage, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks: A statistical comparative analysis.
The Four-Dimensional Matrix of Starship Troopers Criticism
A proper critique of Paul Verhoeven’s movies cannot be graphed in Euclidean space.
The Blockbuster Bell Curve, Revisited: Changes in the IMDB Top 250 List, 2008-2009
Was 2008 the best year for movies ever? According to IMDB, it was.
Michael Bay: A Quantitative Comparative Analysis
How bad is Michael Bay, really? And how does he compare to some of the greatest directors of our time, quantitatively?
The Ghostbusters’ Risky Business Plan
Forget Gozer and the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. What about the cash flow problem?
The Use of Punch and Pie as an Attendance Incentive: A Case Study
“More people will come if they think we’ll have punch and pie!”
Analyzing Oscar
I knew installing Microsoft Excel three years ago would pay off.