tv-series-neworks

Repository for scripts used for Master's Thesis

Title: Analysis of graphs of the interactions between the characters in movies and TV series

Author: Wojciech Bogucki

Supervisor: Grzegorz Siudem, PhD

University: Warsaw University of Technology

Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Information Sciences

Project structure

Web scrapers

Web scrapers for downloading transcriptions for Seinfeld, The Big Bang Theory and Friends.

Files are available in web_scrapers directory and are executed in script run_scrapers.py.

Processing

Processing transcripts in tabular form - character unification.

Files are available in processing directory and are executed in script run_processing.py.

Dataset creation

Creation of interactions dataset from transcripts in tabular form.

There is a script for TV series - dataset_cration.py and for movies - movies_dataset_creation.py .

EDA

Performing EDA on TV series datasets and saving all plots in figures directory.

There is a script run_eda.py for executing it.

Created figures:

• top episodes by number of speakers
• top speakers by number of episodes they appeared in
• number of lines per season
• average number of lines in episode per season
• number of scenes by season
• boxplot of number of scenes per season
• average number of scenes in episode per season
• top speakers broken by number of lines per season

Viewership and ratings

Processing ratings and viewership data for TV series.

Files are available in viewership and ratings directories and are executed in scripts run_viewership.py and run_ratings.py.

Network analysis

Scripts used for all network analyses presented in master thesis are located in networks directory and should be run from this directory.

The following scripts are available:

• network_analysis.py - general analysis of TV series
• community_detection_comparison.py - comparison of community detection methods
• feature_importance.py - feature importance for model predicting ratings based on networks' structure
• movie_networks.py - comparison of networks of movies and TV series
• network_clustering.py- clustering of networks
• office_seinfeld_comparison.py - comparative analysis of Seinfeld and The Office