dominikus

@dominikus@vis.social
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creative technologist with a love for data visualizations. background in germanisms.
twitterhttps://twitter.com/dominikus
Website (Dataviz)https://do.minik.us
Website (Art)https://dominikus.art
Mastodonhttps://genart.social/web/@dominikus
dominikusFeb 9

I'll slowly fade out my engagement here.

You can find a much more active version of me on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/do.minik.us

Dominikus (@do.minik.us)

generative artist, data visualization developer, identity-challenged dataviz: https://do.minik.us art: https://dominikus.art

Bluesky Social
dominikusJan 21
LinkedIn job recommender system completely gave up on me 🤷
dominikusSep 19, 2024

A big irony I feel with Google is that whatever studio/individual/project they've sponsored/acquired in the past tends to thoroughly disappear from the internet after five years.

Currently doing research and whenever I'm stumbling upon something of theirs from 2018 or earlier I can almost be sure that no URL works anymore. Link rot's a real bummer, friends.

dominikusSep 10, 2024
Little known at the time was that the switch from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 had been initiated mainly to ramp up content- (and thus training data) production for the GPU-based machine learning revolution on the horizon. The fake-out switch to a supposed "Web 3.0" was a panicked reaction by AI experts (then still masquerading as blockchain bros) to cover their tracks, before being fully able to drop all pretence with the arrival of the Dead Internet.
(from "A People's History of AI")
dominikusAug 20, 2024

Scared of being replaced by an AI? Here's five things you need to do to stay competitive!

- enthusiastically start doing whatever's asked of you even if you're absolutely incompetent
- if tasked with something completely nonsensical never correct your manager but pursue the task until they give up (actio ad absurdum)
- be as bootlicky as possible ("I apologize for the confusion")

Oh and also:
- work for $20 a month
- be available 24/7

dominikusJun 11, 2024

New dataviz project with @al_ice_t and the World Bank shining a light on the challenges of girls' education in Pakistan:

https://datatopics.worldbank.org/dataviz/girls-education-pakistan/

Five major challenges to girls’ education in Pakistan

Educating girls has a myriad of benefits ranging from greater empowerment and economic opportunities to improved health outcomes and reduced poverty. In Pakistan, school-age children, especially girls, lack quality educational access and attainment.

dominikusApr 11, 2024
Unfortunately yes:
https://www.splinter.com/the-climate-charts-are-not-okay
The Climate Charts Are Not Okay

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

Splinter
dominikusApr 5, 2024
Show threadTom MorrisApr 5, 2024

Technologists: I’m barely confident this computer is able to parse dates correctly. And don’t get me started on inkjet printers.

Politicians: they can definitely be cops.

dominikusMar 6, 2024
Jan Willem TulpMar 6, 2024

NEW 🎉 Very quick and small #dataviz experiment: parallel-lives, an interactive timeline of nearly 5000 years of notable people in history.

https://janwillemtulp.github.io/parallel-lives/

3 reasons what I like about this approach: 🧵👇

dominikusMar 4, 2024

I took my side-project too seriously and ended up with the biggest analysis of title drops in movies:

https://titledrops.net

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dominikusMar 4, 2024

I took my side-project too seriously and ended up with the biggest analysis of title drops in movies:

https://titledrops.net

Show threadHugo van KemenadeMar 4, 2024

@dominikus Very nice! I was just thinking about this for songs (your next side-project..?)

By the way, these look like Psycho reviews:

Show threaddominikusMar 4, 2024

@hugovk After doing this I need a break before doing anything similar I'm afraid 😄

But thanks for finding the problems with Psycho, will fix them asap!

Show threadHugo van KemenadeMar 4, 2024

@dominikus Did you know about Penn Jillette's Movie Night?

'Movie Night is full of mandatory hand gestures, goofy code words, and inside jokes. ... Whenever the title of another film was mentioned in the dialogue (as in, ”I don’t want to be home alone tonight”), everybody whispered, ”Wow.” When the film showed an establishing shot of a city, any city, the group muttered, ”Chicago.”'

https://ew.com/article/1991/11/15/penn-jillette-leads-gang-cult-film-fanatics/

Penn Jillette leads a gang of cult film fanatics

Penn Jillette leads a gang of cult film fanatics -- In a weekly ritual, a group of movie buffs get together to watch cheesy films like ''Problem Child 2'' and ''McBain''

EW.com
Show threaddominikusMar 4, 2024
@hugovk Hadn't heard of that, that's fantastic 😆
Show threadRob AndersonMar 4, 2024
@dominikus I feel like you’d like this @robb
Show threadRobb KnightMar 4, 2024
@rob @dominikus I live for this stuff, I saw your boost and immediately dove in 🙏
Show threadAndy Carolan Mar 4, 2024
@dominikus This is incredible!
Show threadRobb KnightMar 4, 2024

@dominikus This is truly amazing work, the kind of thing I wish I'd thought of myself.

Well done 👏

Show threadjordiekuMar 4, 2024

@dominikus

Nice site.
I've been playing around with the search engine.
This can lead to a game: how many times does the word "..." appear in the movie "..."?

Show threadNicolas HoizeyMar 4, 2024

@dominikus this is awesome, impressive work! 🤯

I'm not sure “It” really qualifies for top 10 fiction movies though, most “it” in dialogs don't really refer to the title/name… 🤡 😁

Show threaddominikusMar 4, 2024
@nhoizey Yes, I had to make some tough decisions when it came to what constitutes a title drop and what not... in 'It's case I was aware that characters probably tend to mean the third person pronoun and not the clown but I decided to stick to the rules as I had defined them. And who knows - maybe Stephen King was actually talking about the pronoun the whole time 😉
Show threadNicolas HoizeyMar 4, 2024
@dominikus maybe! 😅
Show threadKelsey JordahlMar 4, 2024
@dominikus cool!
I see that war movies have one of the lowest rates of name drops. I haven't seen the 2022 movie, but Erich Maria Remarque's novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" has one of the most famous name drops in literature, right at the end, though I don't see any matches on your site for the movie version.
Show threaddominikusMar 4, 2024
@kajord Yes indeed, good catch! The original novel does the title drop but the new Netflix version only shows 'Im Westen Nichts Neues' as title cards twice - once in the beginning and once in the end. None of the characters say the line though ...
Show threadSebastian LammersMar 4, 2024

@dominikus

I went through the piece a second time (still amazing) and stumbled across two dead/undefined links in the sentence "movies like E or I", where both movies are "undefined". Just in case you feel like going back into codebase *just once more* 😜

Show threaddominikusMar 4, 2024
@seblammers Amazing, thanks so much for letting me know! Just added the links so everyone can bask in the glory that is 'E' (2006) and 'I' (2015) 😄
Show threadPeter GassnerMar 4, 2024
@dominikus Bravo, this is so cool! 👏
Show threadgiantweevilMar 5, 2024

@dominikus I have a quibble! Redline (2009) uses the word redline many times in the English subtitles, including this time at ~16:30, but the analysis shows 0.

https://www.titledrops.net/explorer?movies=tt1483797&title=Redline

Full of Themselves: An analysis of title drops in movies

A title drop is when a character in a movie says the title of the movie they're in. Here's a large-scale analysis of 73,921 movies from the last 80 years on how often, when and maybe even why that happens.

Show threaddominikusMar 5, 2024
@giantweevil Good catch! Fixed.
Show threadauzzyMar 5, 2024
@dominikus This is super awesome! I've read the writeup, now I can't wait to dig through the dataset.
Show threadDominik MoritzMar 5, 2024
@dominikus really nice story and beautiful visuals. I love the way you did the annotations.
Show threadJames HenstridgeMar 5, 2024
@dominikus I wonder if some of those title drops in non-english language films come from the subtitles including a translation of the title sequence?
Show threaddominikusMar 5, 2024
@jamesh There are certainly false positives like that in the data.
Show threadjuv3nalMar 5, 2024
@dominikus your data for Secrets & Lies (1996) appears to be wrong? It shows zero, but there's this about 12 seconds into the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KOdU5Tbbo0
Secrets and lies - Tim Spall

YouTube
Show threadjuv3nalMar 5, 2024
@dominikus wondering if it's the ampersand doing a thing there
Show threaddominikusMar 5, 2024
@juv3nal Good catch - it certainly is the ampersand!
Show threadJari Komppa 🇫🇮Mar 5, 2024
@dominikus You absolute madman. Well done.
Show threadCory BirdsongMar 5, 2024
@dominikus Edge case issue: the slash in Face/Off https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119094/quotes/?item=qt2778399&ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Im Körper des Feindes (1997) - Quotes - IMDb

Im Körper des Feindes (1997) - * Fitch: So, once we kidnap "supercop", then what? * Sean Archer: [smiles enigmatically, moving his finger across his face] Tiny... surgery. * [Dietrich looks at "Castor" confused] * Sean Archer: l'd like to take his... his face... off. Yes. Now, if you'll excuse me, l have to use the little boy's wee-wee room. * [Sean stands and starts to walk away] * Dietrich: Cas... * [Sean turns back to Dietrich] * Dietrich: You wanna take his... face... * Sean Archer: [smiles widely] Yes. His face... off. Eyes... * [Sean slightly pinches Dietrich's nose] * Sean Archer: ...nose. Skin. lt's coming off. * [Sean walks away, leaving the others totally confused of his last words] * Dietrich: [mimicks Sean's gesture] The face... off.

IMDb
Show threadCory BirdsongMar 5, 2024

@dominikus another edge case: all the Mission Impossible movies count every use of the word “mission" because the actual formatting of the title is always "Mission: Impossible”

bonus related edge case: their subtitles are separated with a dash once they stop using numbers (“Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol”), which means it has not counted usage of those subtitles: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1229238/quotes/?item=qt1691534&ref_=ext_shr_lnk

Mission: Impossible - Phantom Protokoll (2011) - Quotes - IMDb

Mission: Impossible - Phantom Protokoll (2011) - * Ethan Hunt: The Secretary is dead. The President has invoked Ghost Protocol. We're shut down. No satellite, safe house, support, or extraction. The four of us and the contents of this car are all that remains of the IMF.

IMDb
Show threadDJ Tent ModeMar 22, 2024
@dominikus Was going to send this to @k0ry and then I saw who boosted it into my feed!