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caffeineninja
This is pretty awesome.

Couple things:

1) Clicking on tabs in the graph causes you to snap to the top of the page. Adding return false; to your tab/link handler will fix that.

2) There's no explanation anywhere for the lines - what do they refer to?

3) Would be nice to be able to zoom in and pan rather than click.

geelen
Thanks for the feedback. The lines just link together the 6 selected points, which are whatever's nearest to where you clicked.
xlevus
Is there any reason for this?

Clicking on the Princess Bride links me to Ep6, Lost Ark, Avengers and BTTF.

To me it implies that they're related or similar. But I can't see any relation or similarity across these 5 other than score.

pedalpete
I just have to say that I think your execution is exceptional. Everything is so clearly laid out, your design is great. Even though I didn't understand the x/y axis of how you were rating the movies, it didn't matter, up and to the right just meant 'better', which was simple enough for me.

If you don't mind my asking, how long have you been working on this?

johnb
The whole site? The current iteration is around a year old, things were pretty solidly overhauled when we got our first seed funding.

The graph specifically? Was a Glen (founding dev) & Charlie (designer) working for a few days straight.

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geelen
That's our dataset of user ratings at Goodfilms.
paulgb
If you have the data, it would be cool to see this colorized by genre and length. My guess is that dramas have a higher quality to rewatchability ratio than comedies, and that a similar relationship exists between long movies and short ones.

Very cool visualization!

brianfryer
> it would be cool to see this colorized by drama

What a FANTASTIC idea! I'd like to discover other movies of similar genre

> ... and length

TV shows vs. feature-length films?

paulgb
For length, what I had was a continuous scale based on the runtime in minutes.
fuzzythinker
Top notch design and execution! Just love the discovery line/zoom feature, very unique and useful.

Minor issues:

- How are the hearts calculated?

- The graph is too crowded, I would put genres on the left of the graph and allow genre filtering

- I expected selecting a genre will show me the graph with just that genre, it didn't happen, the graph wasn't shown.

- Bug? clicking on one of the films, eg: http://goodfil.ms/film/108266-arthur shows a mini graph, but nothing is highlighted on it, not even the file itself. Nothing happened clicking on any of the circles (using Chrome)

- I want search to be able to indicate the film on the graph

- related films should also include really related films instead of ones by the "line" metric. Eg, Arthur 2011 should show older Arthur film.

minikomi
Love looking at the outliers - particularly "The Room" over on the top left corner!
rurounijones
Very cool, make searching for things like "Highest rated, lowest re-watchable" fun and interesting.

On a side-note. In the above query one of the front-runners seems to be "Grave of the fireflies" which does not surprise me what-so-ever.