2. Concepts
• Reveal how your money flows from a
movie ticket to a 2008 Political Candidate
• Connection between films and politicians
• Media bias
• Transparency
Popcorn & Politics: Concept
6. Design Question
• Where does your money go when you buy a
movie ticket?
• Is the film industry left-leaning in
support?
• Is there a connection between the film
industry and political machine?
• Is Campaign Finance Reform effective?
Popcorn & Politics: Research
7. Precedents
• Napolean’s March
• CEO Politics
• Fundrace 2008
• TheyRule
• MovieCharts
Popcorn & Politics: Research
14. Edward Tufte
• More data, less data ink
• No legend
• No grid
• Chart junk
Popcorn & Politics: Research
15. Process
• Find relationship in data
• Build local database by pooling multiple
data sources
• Visualize the data
• Tell compelling, relevant story
Popcorn & Politics: Process
17. Why Producers?
• "Producers seldom have a set salary,
because they get a percentage of a show's
earnings or ticket sales.”
- Dept of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Popcorn & Politics: Process
18. Database (XML)
• Movie (The Dark Knight)
– Producer (John Doe)
• Candidate (Barack Obama)
• Donation ($500)
– Producer (Jane Smith)
• Candidate (John McCain)
• Donation ($2300)
• http://api.popcornandpolitics.com/movies/
Hancock
Popcorn & Politics: Process
30. Conclusion
- Obama received a lot of donations.
- “I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry”
donated to McCain.
- Supreme Court ruling rejecting limits on
corporate spending on political campaigns
31. Next Steps
• P&P as a tool
• Possibly release Sankey library
• Optimize public API
• Create large PDF prints of graphs