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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Splunk in Movie Characters Timeline
These are the graphs that could be possibly (fictitiously) generated using Splunk to search for the characters in movies. Take a look at this:
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Cool idea!
ReplyDeleteHow would we do it? Where would we get the data?
Even if we had an electronic copy and indexed it, seems have software determining sequence of events in a novel would be ridiculously hard ;-)
I do like the idea of this kind of sequence map. Will talk to our viz and knowledge extraction guru's to see what they think. If you could do it, there would be a ton of applications.
Thanks for the idea!
erik swan ( work at splunk )
The sequence of events might not be difficult, but we'd have to have the actual script (As usually there is alot of information in the script, such as "direction of speech), and then a full list of characters.. which we could get from IMDB (probably). Closed Caption text wouldn't work. If subtext contained information about scenes and locations--maybe it would be possible.
ReplyDeleteMichael Wilde
Splunk Ninja
http://splunkninja.com
Hi Splunkers,
ReplyDeleteI agree that's a great idea that could have several applications.
What do you think about getting movie scripts from "The internet movie script database" (http://www.imsdb.com)?
I've been taking a look at "star wars" script and it seems fine!
Luca Caldiero
Consoft Sistemi S.p.A.
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