HomeWorldData[OC] Did Barbenheimer really split the country? Cartogram showing the proportion of respondents who watched Barbie or Oppenheimer across the USA, based on Datagotchi’s lifestyle survey.
[OC] Did Barbenheimer really split the country? Cartogram showing the proportion of respondents who watched Barbie or Oppenheimer across the USA, based on Datagotchi’s lifestyle survey.
September 10, 2024
[OC] Did Barbenheimer really split the country? Cartogram showing the proportion of respondents who watched Barbie or Oppenheimer across the USA, based on Datagotchi’s lifestyle survey.
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13 comments
We’re Datagotchi, a non-profit, academic survey tool designed to predict voting intentions based on lifestyle questions. This map visualizes responses from our app regarding whether people have watched *Barbie* or *Oppenheimer* in different states.
**Data source:** This data comes from our app, Datagotchi, where respondents answer 42 lifestyle questions to create personalized insights. The n for this graph is 5348
**Tools used:** The visualization was created using ggplot2 and cowplot.
Our project is entirely research-driven, and we’re trying to understand how lifestyle choices align with political behaviors for the 2024 election. If you’d like to participate, you can check out our app on [usa.datagotchi.com](http://usa.datagotchi.com)
We’ll try sharing more interesting visualizations here based from our results in the coming weeks!
I saw both. They’re just movies. Different movies.
Was them “splitting the country” ever a narrative to begin with? I think they were just popular movies. Lots of people saw both.
Saw both with my wife.
In 20 years, Oppenheimer will still be viewed, Barbie will be forgotten.
Both movies were pretty mediocre
Didn’t see either. Won’t see either at this rate. Just no interest.
Not tryna sound like an AH but this is pretty rough. The N value is tiny for a lot of states making those data virtually useless as is, and the visualization is hard to read.
The numbers require zooming in or a huge screen, and orange/pink are similar colors making a lot of the middle of the pack states easy to mistake. For example I thought New Mexico, Kentucky, and NJ were pink states at first glance, despite Oppenheimer being the favorite by about 10 points in all 3 states.
A lot to work on here
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I thought it was interesting until I got to N<10 for some states
Seeing the parts that are obviously wrong makes the whole thing seem pretty pointless. Nobody in Wyoming saw either movie? Nobody in Vermont or Maine saw Oppenheimer?
You’d be far better off just exclusing those states if you can’t get reliable data.
If I tell you two things about myself and one is plausible but the other is obviously total bull, you’d be less likely to believe the plausible one too, wouldn’t you?
This is nothing but a marketing gimmick to begin with. Who cares.
Very hard to read tbh. I think it would be better to just show a regular map of the United States with 3 numbers in each state:
* (X%/Y%) – % watching Barbie / % watching Oppenheimer (could further simplify this as one number that is % difference) * Sample size.
I think that color scheme in conjunction with the individual boxes, presence of 2 posters in every box makes it not easy on the eyes.
Personally I’m still shocked that anyone wanted to see either movie.
13 comments
We’re Datagotchi, a non-profit, academic survey tool designed to predict voting intentions based on lifestyle questions. This map visualizes responses from our app regarding whether people have watched *Barbie* or *Oppenheimer* in different states.
**Data source:** This data comes from our app, Datagotchi, where respondents answer 42 lifestyle questions to create personalized insights. The n for this graph is 5348
**Tools used:** The visualization was created using ggplot2 and cowplot.
Our project is entirely research-driven, and we’re trying to understand how lifestyle choices align with political behaviors for the 2024 election. If you’d like to participate, you can check out our app on [usa.datagotchi.com](http://usa.datagotchi.com)
We’ll try sharing more interesting visualizations here based from our results in the coming weeks!
I saw both. They’re just movies. Different movies.
Was them “splitting the country” ever a narrative to begin with? I think they were just popular movies. Lots of people saw both.
Saw both with my wife.
In 20 years, Oppenheimer will still be viewed, Barbie will be forgotten.
Both movies were pretty mediocre
Didn’t see either. Won’t see either at this rate. Just no interest.
Not tryna sound like an AH but this is pretty rough. The N value is tiny for a lot of states making those data virtually useless as is, and the visualization is hard to read.
The numbers require zooming in or a huge screen, and orange/pink are similar colors making a lot of the middle of the pack states easy to mistake. For example I thought New Mexico, Kentucky, and NJ were pink states at first glance, despite Oppenheimer being the favorite by about 10 points in all 3 states.
A lot to work on here
[deleted]
I thought it was interesting until I got to N<10 for some states
Seeing the parts that are obviously wrong makes the whole thing seem pretty pointless. Nobody in Wyoming saw either movie? Nobody in Vermont or Maine saw Oppenheimer?
You’d be far better off just exclusing those states if you can’t get reliable data.
If I tell you two things about myself and one is plausible but the other is obviously total bull, you’d be less likely to believe the plausible one too, wouldn’t you?
This is nothing but a marketing gimmick to begin with. Who cares.
Very hard to read tbh. I think it would be better to just show a regular map of the United States with 3 numbers in each state:
* (X%/Y%) – % watching Barbie / % watching Oppenheimer (could further simplify this as one number that is % difference)
* Sample size.
I think that color scheme in conjunction with the individual boxes, presence of 2 posters in every box makes it not easy on the eyes.
Personally I’m still shocked that anyone wanted to see either movie.