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?
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Analyzing the 2010 Oscar Acceptance Speeches
Oscar winners used 1,934 words in 24 acceptance speeches. Some of them actually made sense.
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Quanta of Cage: Standard Deviation of Nicolas Cage Movies’ IMDB Ratings
Nicolas Cage, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks: A statistical comparative analysis.
Simpsonomics: Did Homer Help Cause the Financial Crisis?
Twenty years of Simpsons = Twenty years of buildup to the 2008 crash?
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.
Textalyzing Albums: Word Frequency in the Lyrics of Born To Run, Straight Outta Compton, and Taylor Swift
We now have a new tool to help us decipher pop music lyrics: totally unnecessary quantitative analysis.
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Steelers and Steel: Sports Teams and Their Respective Commodities
Overthinking It salutes this year’s Super Bowl champions with some totally unnecessary Excel.
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George W. Bush: Going Out With a Whimper (on Google)
Overthinking It, and Google, bid farewell to President George W. Bush
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