BATMAN : The Twist and Turns of the Movie Franchise

Data visualization of the Batman Movie Franchise. Data was collected from Wikipedia and Tableau was used to visualize. I created this viz out of curiosity and boredom. 1. I wanted to make a continuous viz with multiple encoding within a single defined frame, and 2. It looked cool in my head and my pencil sketch.  I added explanations withing each section to help aid the audience in understanding the data.

Explore the interactive below.

The Viz is constructed of 5 Sheets

1. The header is a modified Marimekko designed to look like Boxes. This was done by using MIN(1) on the Rows Shelf, changing the chart type to Bar, and then Fixing the Size and the Axis.

I do this to give a clean look on the edges of the viz a clean look when floating another sheet to it on the Dashboard. Also, since Tableau doesn't "Wrap" text marks on this type of Viz, I used a calculated field REPLACE([Film], ' ', CHAR(10)) to create a line break after each space. Not the best solution, but it gets the job done for situations like this.

2. The next sheet is a Jump Plot (kind of). It was built by setting up an Excel sheet with the Films, the Film Number and the Years between Films.

 

From there, I cross joined the Dataset to an Excel Sheet containing 32 Rows of X/Y Coordinates for a Half Circle. After which I simply added the Film number to X and Multiplied Y by the difference in Years. This is similar to what I did in the Marvel Characters Viz

3/5. Sheets 3 and 5 are Sankey based Slope Charts. These use the same method Chris Love described here but with some slight differences.

I pre-processed the Data to find the Ranks (Film Release, Rotten Tomatoes and Worldwide Box Office) for each end (1-8), and wrapped them in Table Calcs (Simple RUNNING_MIN) to ensure Densification. These were then set to Restart every Film, creating the Sigmoid Curves from One Rank to the Other.

4/6/ Sheets 4 and 6 were Dot plots with a Skinny Dual Axis Bar Chart for effect.

Finally, some cleanup and Dashboard Actions were used to create the Highlight across sheets, giving the illusion of one continuous viz.

Feel free to download the Workbook and explore more. If you have any questions/need me to explain in more detail, feel free to contact me by email or Twitter.

Rody