Data visualization project showing how Broadway actors have been involved in the Law & Order franchise over the years.
In the Broadway theater community, Law & Order has long been known for casting many Broadway actors over the years. This project was created to show visually how Broadway actors have been involved in the Law & Order franchise, tracing data from the very first episode in 1990 to the present.
The tracker is built using Vue.js. The charts are created using Apache ECharts. The data is stored in a MongoDB database.
The following statistics are tracked, most of them are the totals for across the franchise:
- Total number broadway actors, broadway actors in Law & Order shows, Law & Order episodes that feature a Broadway actor
- Total characters played
- Average number of episodes per actor
- Law & Order episodes with multiple broadway actors
- Season with the most Broadway actors in the shows
- Actor with the most appearances in Law & Order across the franchise
- Top 10 actors that have been in Law & Order
- Timeline of Broadway actor appearances
- Top 10 actors for each Law & Order show
- Actors that have played multiple characters or appeared as the same character more than once
- Character types
- Episodes with multiple broadway actors cast
- Top 10 other crime shows these actors are in
- List of the actors that have appeared the most in other crime shows