Popular Post carly_the_cuttlefish Posted January 28, 2021 Popular Post Report Share Posted January 28, 2021 (edited) I know this has been discussed before, but I had some fun doing a goofy data viz project poking fun at the number of times characters "raise an eyebrow" at each other in the original trilogy. After collecting some basic eyebrow interaction data, I made some plots analyzing: The most frequent eyebrow Raisers vs Raisees Changes in eyebrow raising frequency over time The social network among characters as defined by their eyebrow exchanges I wrote up some analysis claiming that characters' eyebrow behaviors mark key moments of personal growth in their character arcs and dumped a set of interactive visualizations for all 3 books here. I thought this forum might get a kick out of it Here are some viz previews: (Nodes are sized proportionally to the total number of eyebrow interactions in which that character was involved; Arrows are sized proportionally to the number of directed eyebrow raises from the source to the target) Edited January 28, 2021 by carly_the_cuttlefish 36 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanLemon Posted January 28, 2021 Report Share Posted January 28, 2021 Have an upvote. Also, I love the giant arrow pointing at Vin 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shard of Reading Posted January 28, 2021 Report Share Posted January 28, 2021 This is the data we needed about Mistborn. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Invocation Posted January 28, 2021 Report Share Posted January 28, 2021 (edited) I love that no one ever raises an eyebrow at Dox. It's always him side-eyeing someone else. Edited January 28, 2021 by Invocation 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanLemon Posted January 28, 2021 Report Share Posted January 28, 2021 This is the web that held the crew together, not friendships, not dreams, but eyebrows 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AquaRegia Posted January 29, 2021 Report Share Posted January 29, 2021 ZOMG Is there a university that awards PhDs for this kind of critical research? I very much hope you find it (assuming you are not already enrolled). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carly_the_cuttlefish Posted January 29, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2021 2 hours ago, AquaRegia said: Is there a university that awards PhDs for this kind of critical research? I very much hope you find it (assuming you are not already enrolled). Tragically, I *am* in a PhD program... but studying methane-eating bacteria genetics. And since bacteria don't have eyebrows, I'll be hard-pressed to work this into my thesis >.< That said, I've been increasingly considering that eyebrow analysis may be my new calling... I just finished the Nevernight Chronicles by Jay Kristoff and there were a lot of raised brows in that series too. We may be onto something 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konaka Posted January 30, 2021 Report Share Posted January 30, 2021 With all the questionable stuff Kelsier does in that book, I am surprised he is more often the one who raises the eyebrow that the one that gets the eyebrow raised towards. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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