Wes Anderson Actor Network

Network visualisation of actors appearing in Wes Anderson films

This repository currently holds 2 versions (there may be more to come, who knows) of Wes Anderson network visualisations. I wanted to use the wesanderson colour palette package for a data viz of, well, something to do with Wes Anderson. This is what happened.

Files contained in this repo:

• Wes Anderson Film Network.R - Original project to scrape Wes Anderson film data and generate a static visualisation of actors appearing in his films. Built using the tidygraph and ggraph packages by Thomas Pedersen.
• wes_anderson_films.rds - Dataset created in above script to save having to repeat web scrape for further Wes fun.
• app.R - A Shiny app script to create an interactive visualisation. Built using the tidygraph package, and the visNetwork package by DataStorm. It uses the dataset above.
• styles.css - Some CSS stylings for Shiny app.

A write-up of the static visualisation can be found on my blog: https://davidsmale.netlify.com/portfolio/wes-anderson-actor-network/.

A write-up of the interactive visualisation hopefully coming soon...

Here's the Shiny App for your pleasure: https://committedtotape.shinyapps.io/wesandersonnetwork/

Forever indebted to Karthik Ram's wesanderson package.

Please use Wes Anderson colour palettes responsibly.