Disney Baby

Research Question

Mass Media and Its influence on society Is there a relationship between Disney character’s Name and the frequency of babies’ names?

The Topic of Visualization

The top trendy Disney character’s name used in babies’ name before and after the film was produced.

Datasets

Datasets 1: Disney Films & Characters Lists

Data Source

• Source: IMDb website
• Content: A list “Walt Disney Animation Studios Feature Films” collected by IMDb users.
• Format: HTML

Data Collection

• Python package
  • Urllib2 & BeautifulSoup
• Parse HTML
  • Film Title/Url
  • Year
  • Rank
  • Character

Datasets 2: The Number of Babies’ Name in US History

Data Source

• Source: The Social Security Administration
• Content: The numbers of given names in U.S. births (has SSN)
  • 1923-2015
  • Privacy: 5+ occurrences
• Format:
• 93 files in txt format. name,sex,number

Data Collection

• Direct download from SSA website
• Python:
  • For loop to open the files
  • Get the required data
  • Save it as json

Manipulation methods

STEP 1. Crawl_disney_char > json

[{"Year": "1937", "Character": "Doc", "Rank": "7.6", "Movie URL": "http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029583/", "Title": "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"}]

STEP 2. Baby’s name & Disney Character > json

[{"Count": "71633", "Name": ["Mary", "F"], "Year": 1923}]

STEP 3. Find top N name in history by sum of name’s count > json

[{"Sum": 4531485, "Name": ["James", "M"]},  {"Sum": 3037975, "Name": ["Mary", "F"]}]

STEP 4. Generate “name counts” from 1923-2015 on number of occurrences in descending order for top N name > csv

Name, Gender, BornYear, Count
James,M,1923,50466
James,M,1924,52939

STEP 5. Generate “name_movie mapping” > csv

Name,Movie Title,Year
Travis,The Princess and the Frog,2009
Louis,The Little Mermaid,1989
Louis,The Princess and the Frog,2009

STEP 6. Use “ploy.ly” python package to visualize a line chart for each top N name

Data Visualization

Top 20 Disney Baby

• X: year; Y: Counts of name
• Circle: The year of films released, hover to see the title of movie and its IMDb rank
• Color
  • Red: Female's Name
  • Blue: Male's Name

Known Issues

• "5. Larry" circle has a bug of its position.
• Inconsistent data in IMDb user-generated character list.

Next Step

Use popular film’s main characters to do further exploration.