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I set out to discover which Harry Potter actors have had the best careers since the franchise kicked off in 2001 - similar to the analysis I did of people who've acted in the Star Wars franchise. How many other movies did they make, how good were those movies and how much money did they bring in? To find out, I turned to IMDb. For every actor who was credited in one of the eight Harry Potter movies, I pulled every full-length feature film2 that he or she was credited in, as well as the ratings for each film and its box-office take, if IMDb had it.

My name is Mary. This is quite a popular girla name in many countries. So, since childhood I've rarely been surprised to meet my namesake in daily life. But movies were a different matter! However, after hundred of watched movies and TV series I assumed that most of the characters had pretty ordinary names as well. James Bond, Jeff Lebowski and Sarah Connor hardly could impress anybody with their first names. Does it mean that common for real life names are popular in the cinema world as well? To find out the answer, I took 50 most popular female and male US names for each decade since 1960 and compared their frequency in real life with popularity in movies & TV shows released in the same years.

Adrienne is a Marvel movie fanatic: Her favorite films all involve the Hulk, Thor or Black Panther. Brandon prefers animated features like Inside Out, The Incredibles and anything with Buzz Lightyear. I like both kinds, although I'm probably closer to Adrienne than Brandon. And I might skew a little toward Cora, who loves thrillers like Get Out and The Shining. Whose movie preferences are closest to yours: Adrienne's, Brandon's or Cora's? And how far are your cinematic tastes from those of the other two? It might seem strange to ask "how far" here. That's a question about distance, after all. What does distance mean when it comes to which movies you like? How would we measure it?

Here's a discussion of how data science techniques that look at the kinds of things you watch, and try and make recommendations or customise based on that can work, and what might be problematic about that. "Some are noticing Netflix's tendency to entice black users with movie posters featuring black actors, no matter how minor their role in the film."

Top Hollywood actresses have complained that they are paid less than their male co-stars - analysis of this data and how female actresses are represented in film