Minnesota is the state with the most Dairy Queen locations per person [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_Queen#cite_note-11]. What's the farthest you'd ever have to drive to reach a DQ in Minnesota? How far would you have to go to get your birthday ice cream cake or…
How much does breed influence a dog's name? Do you meet more Beagles than Bulldogs named "Bailey"? Fewer Pugs and more Dachshunds named "Nathan"? The physical characteristics and personality traits associated with each breed probably make a bigger impact on your dog's name than you think. (Why didn't you consider…
Craft beer is a huge market. Beer reviews from fellow beer drinkers help customers navigate it. From 2013 to 2016, the craft beer industry nearly doubled in value from $14.3 [https://www.brewersassociation.org/press-releases/2013-craft-beer-data-infographic/] to $23.5 billion [https://www.brewersassociation.org/statistics/national-beer-sales-production-data/] . The number of…
Incorporating a Halloween-themed episode into a television series season is not a new thing. In the 1960s, it started with Halloween-y television shows like Bewitched, The Addams Family, and The Twilight Zone. By the early 1970s, the idea spread to mainstream television programs with The Brady Bunch (1972), Happy Days…
Trilogies are common in sci-fi and fantasy books and movies, fitting nicely into the broad story template known as the hero's journey [https://venngage.com/blog/heros-journey/], where a central character goes on an adventure, wins a victory, and comes home changed. > "If you make a trilogy, the whole point…
Women make up just 39% of speaking roles on television [http://womenintvfilm.sdsu.edu/files/2015-16-Boxed-In-Report.pdf] and 32% in movies [http://womenintvfilm.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2016-Its-a-Mans-Celluloid-World-Report.pdf] , according to recently released research [http://womenintvfilm.sdsu.edu/research/] by the San Diego State University's Center for the…
Which movies and characters have the most dialogue? Last April, Polygraph complied and analyzed 2,000 screenplays to study gender in film dialogue [http://polygraph.cool/films/]. This analysis uses their summary dataset [https://github.com/matthewfdaniels/scripts/] (for each movie: its characters, the number of words they spoke, their…
As of December 21, Radio Locator [http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/finder?format=xms&count=356&s=R&sr=1&is_ful=Y&is_lp=Y&prev=0] shows that more than 350 stations in the U.S. and Canada have switched to playing holiday music around the clock. Christmas music…
Write-in votes are a uniquely American tradition: nowhere else in the world can you cast a vote for a candidate not included on the ballot. With two of the least popular candidates ever [http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/08/31/poll-clinton-trump-most-unfavorable-candidates-ever/89644296/] running for president, Americans…
We analyzed the scores of thousands of movies to identify which actors and actresses are beloved by the audience—even though critics say their movies suck. If you love, hate, or love to hate Adam Sandler, Gerard Butler, Clint Eastwood, or a certain Chris Farley sidekick, you might want to…