Information Is BeautifulMar 10

Lord of the Rings characters: screen time vs mentions in the book.

The further from the dotted line, the further off trend.

By reddit user austinw-8 https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/s/Dw7XqDxyEB

Show threadÆ Sea F.
@infobeautiful what does the dotted line represent? What are its slope and intercept?
Mar 10 at 9:05pmWeb
Show threadArmchair EpistemologistMar 11
@hcf @infobeautiful I suspect that frodo defines the slope
Show threadÆ Sea F.Mar 11

@rcriii @infobeautiful yeah, ok, Frodo is the main character so it makes sense, I agree.

But the line doesn't touch the origin. I wonder why.

Show threadArmchair EpistemologistMar 11

@hcf @infobeautiful I missed that! So maybe the line is a best fit forced through Frodo, i.e a kind of average?

Since the graph seems to only include characters appearing the books and no movie only characters,, it makes sense that the y intercept >0.