Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Notes on a black actors and actresses dataset


As part of the project that I'm working on, I constructed a dataset based on black actors and actresses. Here's a rundown of some info I noticed while looking through the data:

Actors 
• 50 black men and 50 black women
• Birth years are from 1893 - 2003
• 30 of the actors were born prior to 1960; 70 of the actors were born after 1960
• Largest concentration of actor birth years is from 1965 - 1975 (38 actors)
• The top 4 cities of birth: New York City (15),  Los Angeles (10), Chicago (6), London (6)
• The actor with the most appearances -- Samuel L. Jackson (120)

Films
The dataset encompasses:
• 2,700 films, released from 1932 through 2018
• 2,175 films that include only one of the 100 actors.
• 525 films that include two of the 100 actors.
• 161 films that include three of the 100 actors.
• 2 films -- Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Black Panther (2018) -- that include 9 of the 100 actors.
• The year with the most releases was 2013 with 117 films

Related:
In a Dataset of Their Own: comparisons of black artists & black artists

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