Hello!
Haven’t posted in a while, sorry. I’m working on some data visualisation at the moment and it seemed tangentially related to writing, so I thought I’d post it. I’m still working out how to embed the viz into WordPress, so this post will change when that happens.
I’ve cobbled together a few data sets about Shakespeare’s plays (one’s a super-useful dataset by a Kaggle user called LiamLarsen, and the rest are mine), and here’s an interactive viz for potential Shakespeare directors.
The idea is this: if you’ve got a performance space and want to direct a Shakespeare play, use the visualisation to work out which play is most suitable for your space. Select a play to find out what sets you need to design and how many big scene changes you’d need to do.
If you’ve got any interesting questions about Shakespeare’s settings / characters / lines I could tackle, let me know, as I can cover quite a lot of different things with the information I’ve collated. I’d also appreciate knowing if the viz doesn’t make sense. Alternatively, feel free to ask me for the raw data.
Jezknee 