Visualising the Simpsons (English)

400-499 500-599 600-699 700-799 800-899 Us and Italy circle size = episode title's total words number per season 200-299 300-399 50 75 100 seasons comparison triangle eight = time gap between Us broadcasting and Italy broadcasting of the first episode 100-199 %3D Us Italy still to be broadcasted in Italy Us television broadcasting year: 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 season number– 1 16 18 3 (24) 15 (22) 4 9. (25) (25) 10 11 12 13 (22) 14 (22) 17 (22) 19 20 21 22 -(13) (25) 23 (22) 24 (22) number of episodes within the season- (22) (22) (22) (25) (23) (22) (21) (21) (22) (20) (21) (23) (22) Homer Simpson Lisa Simpson Bart Simpson a Marge Simpson Maggie Simpson Moe Szyslak Lenny Leonard Ned Flanders Milhouse Van Houten D Seymour Skinner Carl Carlson 50 main characters decreasing number of total appearances provides charachters' order from top to bottom Clancy Wiggum Barney Gumble Abraham Simpson Julius Hibbert Nelson Muntz Apu Nahasapeemapetilon Krusty the Clown Charles Montgomery Burns Kent Brockman Edna Krabappel Otto Mann Ralph Wiggum Groundskeeper Willie Waylon Smithers Selma Bouvier Lou Jimbo Jones Patty Bouvier Terri D Timothy Lovejoy/ Santa's Little Helper Comic Book Guy Joe Quimby Kearney Zzyzwicz Martin Prince Kirk Van Houten Elizabeth Hoover Agnes Skinner Sideshow Mel Eddie O Jasper Beardly ? Todd Flanders D Rod Flanders Helen Lovejoy Luann Van Houten Wendell Borton Bernice Hibbert Hans Molemana secondary characters Season first appearance per each season provides charachters' order from top to bottom, S. 2 S. 3 Visualizing the Simpsons frequency of appearance (color) determines charachters' order from top to bottom in any Season S. 4 S. 5 S. 6 S. 7 S.8 S. 9 ....... The visualization explores the evolution of "The Simpsons" cartoon over the 24 seasons. For each seasons we visualized episodes' information such as number and titles, broadcasting year and number of charachters. A further investingation on characthers displays: the intensity of their presence throughout the seasons, the seasons each of them first appears, their professional area of occupation and how many time they've been named within the dialogues. 197 191 .10 ..... 184 S. 11 213 S. 12 224 214 207 S. 16 S. 17 S. 18 S. 19 S. 20 216 267 213 293 222 220 208 S. 21 300 286 259 How to read it? 289 frequency of appearences in the season (% on the total of episodes per season) 298 main characters: secondary characters: 278 Homer Simpson Lisa Simpson 318 character season season colors = frequency of appareances in the season (% on the total of episodes per season) 60-70% the bar size shrinks whenever jobs areas: home charachters of the previous seasons are not displayed in the next one frequency of mentions for the name of the characther within the dialogues in the season (% on the total of the most named character) nuclear power plant school 371 an empty box appears whenever the analysed season doesn't display any of the characters that appeared for the first time in the previous season student 50-59,9% commercial O public administration O television T 40-49,9% 30-39,9% 20-29,9% 10-19,9% 0-9,9% Sources: S. 24 429 imdb.com number 438 total of secondary charačters per each season simpsonswiki.com springfieldspringfield.co.uk other / a111llilוiIIIlIlllliIוווםl iililiiiılılılılıluıltıtı.ll llililiiiililתוו .liiiilliil4i 1liiililililiiiliiiii,iisltו ulli ПІІ lilllilillilulı. illiclinıloılIL.ILultu iilliuiluulLilullii.lumlili iliiili illullububiu.lılı ILil..lı liitiliiilL.li uli1. LLLLLlilii.LIuLLiI iitiiiiaiiiil liillוillil LLLLiLEEEklarrtkiilıa.kloolatılıllubbaal iliilliilitiiilli1וווו İLulliiklitLLLLILLEELE LEL.1. LiELLLL.iELL:LELL LL. OOAOODI♥O\\ODOETI OI»00¤ODO OOOONINHO 0OAADA