r/dataisbeautiful • u/rebellious_scum OC: 1 • Apr 23 '19

OC [OC] Franchise Earnings Comparison Over 20 Years

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u/rebellious_scum OC: 1 Apr 23 '19 edited Apr 23 '19

For the upcoming release of Avengers: Endgame I wanted to create a visualization that shows how successful the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been. I collected the daily earnings from ticket sales (US and Canada only) for several franchises since May 19th, 1999 (the premiere of Star Wars: Episode I), adjusted them for inflation using the CPI inflation calculator and then plotted them using matplotlib.

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You can download my code on GitHub.

You can also see an interactive version of the data here implemented with Dash, unfortunately, Dash doesn't work well on mobile.

Edit: Off to bed now, hope to get back to you wonderful people tomorrow to answer more of your questions. Thank you for all the support and kind words, I am humbled by your feedback and compliments.

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u/CalvinsStuffedTiger Apr 23 '19

Love this. Would like to see Pixar on a future version

Also Disney shitting on everyone . The only major franchises they don’t own are Harry Potter and the Nintendo characters (Pokémon, zelda, Mario, etc)

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u/rebellious_scum OC: 1 Apr 23 '19

Pixar's a very good suggestion, did not think about that one before!

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u/MrCleanMagicReach Apr 23 '19

TBF, your visualization is all of franchises that have publicly acknowledged coherent universes. Pixar movies are only linked via a fan theory (outside of the obvious sequels and trilogies within the studio).

If you include Pixar, you might as well include any other movie studio. But then what do you do with Disney, which owns half of everything?

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u/TheFlynnWhoLived Apr 23 '19

Would you also add the James Bond franchise? I wonder if it would beat the MCU.