InfoVis 2007 Contest Entry: Cinegraph

Cinegraph is an interactive visualization for exploring and analyz- ing the InfoVis 2007 contest data set derived from the Internet Movie Database (IMDB). By combining two complementary vi- sual interaction techniques, cross-filtered views and attribute rela- tionship graphs, Cinegraph supports a wide variety of general and highly-focused analytic tasks. Users can express complex lines of questions in the form of rapid sequences of simple interactions. De- signed and built in a little over two days by a single visualization designer using the Improvise visualization environment, Cinegraph provides high-dimensional interactive drill-down capability into the people, genres, awards, release dates, and box office characteristics of movies described in the database, using ancilliary photographs of people, images of movie posters, and icons of movie genres to enhance the interaction process.