Game of Thrones Datasets and Visualizations

1. About this Project
2. Visualizations
   1. Interfaces
   2. Narrative Charts
   3. Screen Time
   4. Cumulative Time
   5. Wordcount & Language
   6. Co-Occurrence
   7. Relationships
   8. Actor Relationships
   9. Lands of Ice and Fire Geography
   10. Prediction
   11. Other People's
3. Data
4. Use, Licensing, Attribution

About this Project

• View all visualizations at jeffreylancaster.github.io/game-of-thrones

Articles on Medium

• "The Ultimate Game of Thrones Dataset"
• "32 Game of Thrones Data Visualizations"
• "19 More Game of Thrones Data Visualizations"
• "Introducing Game of Thrones Script Search"

Data Visualization Episode Recaps

• "Winterfell" (Season 8, Episode 1)
• "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" (Season 8, Episode 2)
• "The Long Night" (Season 8, Episode 3)
• "The Last of the Starks" (Season 8, Episode 4)

Interfaces

Episode Viewer: episode/

• A compilation of episode-specific data visualizations, including aggregate character time on screen, wordcount, languages, locations, and more.
  View the visualizations || Explore the code

Script Search: search/mongodb/

• A simple search interface to explore the words spoken on Game of Thrones, including who says each line and text and translations in Dothraki, Valyrian, etc.
  Search the database || Explore the code

Visualizations

Narrative Charts

Narrative Chart: map/

• A visualization of when each character is on-screen throughout the show, where they are, with whom they are, when they die, and more.
  View the visualization || Explore the code
  • process.html: Builds keyValues.json from episodes.json by adding y-values and additional location-specific information and outputs the data for keyValues.json.
  • index.html: Builds the visualization using d3.js and outputs the Game of Thrones narrative chart.

Note: map contains spoilers.

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Heatmap / Flattened Narrative Chart: heatmap/

• A visualization of how many characters are in locations throughout the show.
  View the visualization || Explore the code
  • includes a calcData parameter that pre-processes the data for data/heatmap.json.

Inspired by Hubble Image of Galaxy Cluster Converted Into Sound.

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Screen Time

Characters On Screen: scenes-character/

• A visualization of when each character is on screen throughout the entire show.
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Locations On Screen: scenes-location/

• A visualization of when each location is shown on screen throughout the show.
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More-Specific Locations On Screen: scenes-sublocation/

• A visualization of when each more-specific location is shown on screen throughout the show.
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Special Scenes On Screen: scenes-special/

• A visualization of when special scenes (death, sex, flashback, warging, greensight, etc.) are shown on screen throughout the show.
  View the visualization || Explore the code

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Deaths On Screen: bubble-death/

• A visualization of when deaths happen throughout the show.
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Weapons On Screen: scenes-weapons/

• A visualization of when weapons show up on screen throughout the show.
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Houses On Screen: scenes-house/

• A visualization of when various Houses are represented throughout the show.
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Number of Characters Per Scene: characters-per-scene/

• A visualization of how many characters are on-screen at one time.
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Continuous Screen Time: bubble-character/

• A visualization where each bubble represents a character and the size of the bubble is continuous time on screen.
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Circles are color-coded by House.

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Cumulative Time

Supercut Duration: duration-character/

• A visualization of how long each character has been on-screen throughout the show.
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Based on Andrew Reid's Horizontal Stacked Bar Chart.

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Screen Time Per Season: duration-per-season/

• A visualization of how long each character has been on-screen in each season of the show.
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Based on Andrew Reid's Horizontal Stacked Bar Chart.

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Character On Screen Time Per Episode: episode-character/

• A visualization of how long each character has been on-screen in each episode throughout the show.
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Based on Harry Stevens's Linear Regression for Scatter Plot.

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Screen Time Per Location: duration-per-location/

• A visualization of how long has been spent in each location throughout the show.
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Based on Andrew Reid's Horizontal Stacked Bar Chart.

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Screen Time Per More-Specific Location: duration-per-sublocation/

• A visualization of how long has been spent in each more-specific location throughout the show.
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Based on Andrew Reid's Horizontal Stacked Bar Chart.

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Character Time Percentage Per Season: duration-percent/

• A visualization of how much of a character's time on screen is spent in each season.
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Based on Mike Bostock's Normalized Stacked Bar Chart.

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Overall Character Time (Treemap): duration-treemap/

• A visualization of how long each character has been on screen throughout the show in proportion to all other characters.
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Based on takayuki's Treemap in d3 v4.

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Screen Time Per House: duration-house/

• A visualization of how long each House has been on screen throughout the show.
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Based on Andrew Reid's Horizontal Stacked Bar Chart.

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Travelling Characters: region-percent/

• A visualization of the various locations characters visit and how much of their time they spend there.
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Based on Mike Bostock's Normalized Stacked Bar Chart.

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Screen Time in Locations Per Episode: location-per-episode/

• A visualization of how long is spent in each location during each episode.
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Based on Andrew Reid's Horizontal Stacked Bar Chart.

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Screen Time Per Gender By Season: duration-gender-season/

• A visualization of how much time women and men are on screen during each season.
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Based on wpoely86's Diverging Stacked Bar Chart.

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Screen Time Per Gender By Episode: duration-gender-episode/

• A visualization of how much time women and men are on screen during each episode.
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Based on wpoely86's Diverging Stacked Bar Chart.

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Screen Time Per Gender By Episode (Percent): duration-gender-percent/

• A visualization of how much time women and men are on screen during each episode as percentages of the episode length.
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Based on wpoely86's Diverging Stacked Bar Chart.

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Wordcount & Language

Character Wordcount: wordcount-character/

• A visualization of how many words each character says throughout the show.
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Based on Andrew Reid's Horizontal Stacked Bar Chart.

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Character Wordcount By Season: wordcount-per-season/

• A visualization of how many words each character says during each season.
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Based on Andrew Reid's Horizontal Stacked Bar Chart.

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Wordcount Per House: wordcount-house/

• A visualization of how many words members of each House say throughout the show.
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Based on Andrew Reid's Horizontal Stacked Bar Chart.

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Wordcount Per Gender By Season: wordcount-gender-season/

• A visualization of how many words women and men say during each season.
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Based on wpoely86's Diverging Stacked Bar Chart.

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Wordcount Per Gender By Episode: wordcount-gender-episode/

• A visualization of how many words women and men say during each episode.
  View the visualization || Explore the code

Based on wpoely86's Diverging Stacked Bar Chart.

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Wordcount Per Gender By Episode (Percent): wordcount-gender-percent/

• A visualization of how many words women and men say during each episode as a percentage of the total words spoken per episode.
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Based on wpoely86's Diverging Stacked Bar Chart.

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Languages Spoken Per Character: language-character/

• A visualization of the languages spoken by characters throughout the show.
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Based on Andrew Reid's Horizontal Stacked Bar Chart.

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Languages Spoken Per Episode: language-episode

• A visualization of the languages spoken by characters throughout each episode.
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Based on Andrew Reid's Horizontal Stacked Bar Chart.

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Co-Occurrence

Character Co-Occurrence Matrix: matrix/

• A matrix visualization of how often characters are on screen together.
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Based on Mike Bostock's Les Misérables Co-occurrence.

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Force-Directed On-Screen Co-Occurrence: force-directed/

• A force-directed visualization of characters on-screen together throughout the show.
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Based on heybignick's d3 v4 force-directed graph.

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Chord Diagram of On-Screen Co-Occurrence: matrix-chord/

• A chord diagram visualization where chord width represents time spent on-screen together by the conected characters.
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Based on HenryLau's chord diagram on JSFiddle.

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Relationships

Force-Directed Relationships: relations-force/

• A force-directed visualization of various relationships between characters (e.g. parents, spouses, who killed whom).
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Parent-child (solid gray), spouse (dashed blue), and killed by (solid black arrow) relationships shown. Based on Mike Bostock's Labeled Force Layout.

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Circle-based Relationships: relations-circle/

• A circle-based visualization of various relationships between characters (e.g. parents, spouses, who killed whom).
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Parent-child (solid gray), spouse (dashed blue), and killed by (solid black arrow) relationships shown. Based on an HBO infographic.

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Force-Directed Sexual Relationships: relations-force-sex/

• A force-directed visualization of sexual relationships between characters.
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Based on a Cool Material infographic.

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Actor Relationships

Costars List: costars-list/

• A list of other films in which Game of Thrones costars, well, costar.
  View the list || Explore the code

Data last pulled following Season 7.

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Costars Matrix: costars-matrix/

• A matrix visualization of frequency of other films in which Game of Thrones costars, well, costar.
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Data last pulled following Season 7. Based on Mike Bostock's Les Misérables Co-occurrence.

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Lands of Ice and Fire Geography

Force-Directed Network of Opening Sequence Locations: opening-locations-force/

• A force-directed network visualization of the Game of Thrones opening sequence locations.
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Based on heybignick's d3 v4 force-directed graph.

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Geographic Network of Opening Sequence Locations: opening-locations-fixed/

• A geographic network visualization of the Game of Thrones opening sequence locations.
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Based on the A Song of Ice and Fire Wiki geography.

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Locations on a Globe: geography-locations/

• Various Game of Thrones locations displayed on a globe.
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Adapted from Jason Davies' "Rotate the World".

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Opening Sequence Locations: opening-seq-arcs/

• A geographic visualization of the Game of Thrones opening sequence locations on a globe.
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Adapted from Andrew Mollica's "World Tour along Flying Arcs".

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Opening Sequence Locations (with Underlying Matrix): opening-seq-matrix/

• A geographic visualization of the Game of Thrones opening sequence locations on a globe with an underlying matrix showing the frequency of opening sequence paths between locations.
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Adapted from Andrew Mollica's "World Tour along Flying Arcs".

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Character Travel Paths: character-arcs/

• A geographic visualization of the paths characters have travelled in the Lands of Ice and Fire.
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Adapted from Andrew Mollica's "World Tour along Flying Arcs".

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Prediction

Simple Cluster Analysis (for Prediction?): episode-character-scatter/

• A simple cluster analysis plotting the slope and y-intercept of the linear regression of time spent on-screen in each episode. We'll see whether it's predictive at all.
  View the visualization || Explore the code

Adapted from Harry Stevens's Linear Regression for Scatter Plot.

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Other People's

• Timelapse animation from Type A Media
• Viz of Thrones: a single interface by Adam Groner, including a geographic map with characters in locations, sex count, death count, scenes in which characters show up, and more
• GraphXR demo from Kineviz
• Character travels through various regions by Lia Petronio
• Character Social Network by Lia Petronio

Data

data/episodes.json

{
  "episodes": [
    {
      "seasonNum": integer,
      "episodeNum": integer,
      "episodeTitle": "string", // from imdb
      "episodeLink": "string", // endpoint: www.imdb.com
      "episodeAirDate": "string", // from imdb
      "episodeDescription": "string", // from imdb
      "openingSequenceLocations": [
        "string",
        ...
      ],
      "scenes":[
        {
          "sceneStart": "string",
          "sceneEnd": "string",
          "location": "string",
          "subLocation": "string",
          "altLocation": "string",
          "flashback": Boolean,
          "greensight": Boolean,
          "warg": Boolean,
          "characters": [
            {
              "name": "string",
              "title": "Hand | Khal | Khaleesi | King",
              "alive": Boolean,
              "born": Boolean,
              "weapon": [
                {
                  "action": "string",
                  "name": "string"
                }
              ],
              "sex": {
                "with": [
                  "string"
                ],
                "when": "string",
                "type": "string"
              },
              "married": {
                "to": "string",
                "when": "string",
                "type": "string",
                "consummated": Boolean
              },
              "mannerOfDeath": "string",
              "killedBy": [
                "string"
              ]
            },
            ...
          ]
        },
        ...
      ]
    },
    ...
  ]
}

data/characters.json

{
  "characters":[
    {
      "characterName": "string",
      "characterLink": "string", // endpoint: www.imdb.com
      "characterImageThumb": "string",
      "characterImageFull": "string",
      "actorName": "string", // OR actors: []
      "actors": [
        {
          "actorName":"Richard Dormer",
          "actorLink":"/name/nm0233807/",
          "seasonsActive":[
            integer,
            ...
          ]
        },
        ...
     ],
      "actorLink": "string", // endpoint: www.imdb.com
      "houseName": [
        "string", // just string if single value
        ...
      ],
      "nickname": "string",
      "royal": Boolean,
      "kingsguard": Boolean,
      "parents": [
        "string",
        ...
      ],
      "parentOf": [
        "string",
        ...
      ],
      "guardianOf": [
        "string",
        ...
      ],
      "guardedBy": [
        "string",
        ...
      ],
      "siblings": [
        "string",
        ...
      ],
      "marriedEngaged": [
        "string",
        ...
      ],
      "allies":[
        "string",
        ...
      ],
      "abducted":[
        "string",
        ...
      ],
      "killed": [
        "string", 
        ...
      ],
      "killedBy": [
        "string",
        ...
      ],
      "serves": [
        "string",
        ...
      ]
      "servedBy": [
        "string",
        ...
      ]
    },
    ...
  ]
}

data/characters-groups.json

{
  "group": [
    {
      "name": "string",
      "characters": [
        "string",
        ...
      ]
    },
    ...
  ]
}

data/characters-include.json

{
  "include":[
    {
      "name": "string",
      "include": Boolean
    },
    ...
  ]
}

data/locations.json

{
  "regions":[
    {
      "location": "string",
      "subLocation": [
        "string",
        ...
      ]
    },
    ...
  ]
}

data/characters-gender-all.json

{
  "male": [
    "string",
    ...
  ],
  "female": [
    "string",
    ...
  ]
}

data/characters-gender.json

{
  "gender": [
    {
      "gender":"male",
      "characters": [
        "string",
        ...
      ]
    },
    {
      "gender":"female",
      "characters": [
        "string",
        ...
      ]
    }
  ]
}

data/colors.json

{
  "colors": [
    {
      "name": "string",
      "hexadecimal": "string",
      "webSafe": "string",
      "basic": "string",
      "rgb": "string",
      "class": [
        "string"
      ],
      "css": {
        "stroke-width": "string",
        "stroke-dasharray": "string",
        "stroke-linecap": "string"
      }
    },
    ...
  ]
}

data/costars.json

{
  "IMDB_ID": {
    "imdb_id": "string",
    "title": "string",
    "year": "string",
    "actors": [
      {
        "personID": "string",
        "actorName": "string",
        "characterName": "string"
      },
      ...
    ]
  },
  ...
}

data/heatmap.json

A pre-processed file for the heatmap/ visualization:

[
  {
    "name": "string",
    "count": [
      {
        "x1": integer,
        "x2": integer,
        "z": integer
      },
      ...
    ]
  },
  ...
]

data/keyValues.json

A pre-processed file for the map/ visualization:

{
  "characters": {
    "CharacterName": {
      "key": "string",
      "values": [
        {
          "s": integer,
          "e": integer,
          "y": integer
        },
        ...
      ]
    },
    ...
  },
  "episodes": [
    {
      "seasonNum": integer,
      "length": integer,
      "shift": integer,
      "episodes":[
        {
          "episodeNum": integer,
          "length": integer,
          "episodeTitle": "string",
          "shift": integer
        },
        ...
      ]
    },
    ...
  ],
  "locations": [
    {
      "name": "string",
      "max": integer,
      "middle": integer
    },
    ...
  ],
  "sublocations": [
    {
      "name": "string",
      "max": integer,
      "middle": integer
    },
    ...
  ]
}

data/lands-of-ice-and-fire.json

A GeoJSON file for geographic visualizations.

// It's better to just go look at the file if you're curious.

data/opening-locations.json

A data file for the opening-locations-fixed/ visualization:

{
  "note": "string",
  "locations": [
    {
      "name": "string",
      "fx": float,
      "fy": float
    },
    ...
  ]
}

data/wordcount-gender.json

{
  "male": [
    "string",
    ...
  ],
  "female": [
    "string",
    ...
  ],
  "crowd": [
    "string",
    ...
  ]
}

data/wordcount-synonyms.json

A working file to rename characters in the script.

{
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "accepted": "string",
      "alt": [
        "string",
        ...
      ]
    },
    ...
  ],
  "groups": [
    "string",
    ...
  ], 
  "others": [
    "string",
    ...
  ]
}

data/wordcount.json

{
  "count": [
    {
      "episodeAlt": "string",
      "seasonNum": integer,
      "episodeNum": integer,
      "episodeTitle": "string",
      "text": [
        {
          "name": "string",
          "count": integer,
          "lang": "string", // optional
          "type": "string" // optional
        },
        ...
      ]
    },
    ...
  ]
} 

data/script-bag-of-words.json

{
  "count": [
    {
      "episodeAlt": "string",
      "seasonNum": integer,
      "episodeNum": integer,
      "episodeTitle": "string",
      "text": [
        {
          "name": "string",
          "text": "string",
          "lang": "string", // optional
          "translation": "string", //optional
          "type": "string" // optional
        },
        ...
      ]
    },
    ...
  ]
} 

Use, Licensing, Attribution

Feel free to take an use this data however you'd like. It's provided as is, is a creative work, and is probably not perfectly accurate.

I only ask that you cite this repository if you do post/publish/share something you make using the data, and that you let me know (on Github or by email) about what you've made.