Visualizing social dynamics through eyebrow interaction data

[carly_the_cuttlefish]

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:

1. The most frequent eyebrow Raisers vs Raisees
2. Changes in eyebrow raising frequency over time
3. 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

[StanLemon]

Have an upvote. Also, I love the giant arrow pointing at Vin

[Shard of Reading he/him]

This is the data we needed about Mistborn.

[+Invocation]

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

[StanLemon]

This is the web that held the crew together, not friendships, not dreams, but eyebrows 

[AquaRegia he/him]

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).

[carly_the_cuttlefish]

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 

[Konaka]

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.