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Jos Dirksen
Jos Dirksen
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Jos Dirksen

Jos Dirksen has worked as a software developer and architect for almost two decades. He has a lot of experience in many technologies, ranging from backend technologies, such as Java and Scala, to frontend development using HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and Typescript. Besides working with these technologies, Jos regularly speaks at conferences and likes to write about new and interesting technologies on his blog. He also likes to experiment with new technologies and see how they can best be used to create beautiful data visualizations. Previously, Jos has worked in many different roles in the private and public sectors, ranging from private companies such as ING, ASML, Malmberg, and Philips to organizations in the public sector, such as the Department of Defense and the Port of Rotterdam.
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Heatmap showing swearword usage in movies

For this last example, we're going to create a heatmap that shows how often swear words are used in movies. We're going to create a heatmap that looks like this:

In this figure, the colors show how often someone swears in that specific part of the movie. For this example, the movie is divided into 30 second segments. The numbers at the left side show how far in the movie we are, and the legend at the bottom shows the color coding used.

The first thing we need, though, is some data to visualize.

Preparing the data

The easiest way to determine the amount of swearing in a movie is by analyzing the subtitles. For most popular movies, you can download a subtitle file (in .srt format), which shows the time of a specific...

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Published in: Apr 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781786463494

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Jos Dirksen

Jos Dirksen has worked as a software developer and architect for almost two decades. He has a lot of experience in many technologies, ranging from backend technologies, such as Java and Scala, to frontend development using HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and Typescript. Besides working with these technologies, Jos regularly speaks at conferences and likes to write about new and interesting technologies on his blog. He also likes to experiment with new technologies and see how they can best be used to create beautiful data visualizations. Previously, Jos has worked in many different roles in the private and public sectors, ranging from private companies such as ING, ASML, Malmberg, and Philips to organizations in the public sector, such as the Department of Defense and the Port of Rotterdam.
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