Interesting graphic by the NYT on movie revenues
 Over the weekend, The New York Times posted a really interesting graphic tracking box office receipts:
Each movie is represented by a shape. The shapes generally begin large on the left and then taper off to the right, along the chronological axis. This represents the diminishing weekly box office receipts for that movie.
You can click on any shape for details about that particular movie:
 
 You see lots of movies stacked atop each other. The total thickness along anypoint of the timeline represents the total box office income that week.
And the really cool part: You can scroll back 22 years to check on movies like Top Gun, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Too cool. Just too cool. Check it out here.
The credit on the piece goes to Mathew Bloch, Shan Carter and Amanda Cox. Good work, gang!
February 25th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Wow, that’s like an idea that you see in a strange trippy dream while looking at a bunch of numbers and what most people usually do in bar graph form. That’s pretty rockin’, those graphics kids must spend a lot of time on the roof of the building where the air is thinner.
February 25th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
That’s cool. Reminds me of a more refined implementation of this beauty (http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html) that does something similar for names.