Women still underrepresented in films
It is not a secret that women in films are underrepresented and underpaid compared to their male partners. But what exactly is a percentage of films with women in lead roles compared to films led by men? I explored movies released so far in 2017 to find out. The most difficult part of making this visualization was getting the data. I found that The Movie DB website has a very well documented API but HTML queries allowed scraping of only 20 results (movies) at a time. So, the only way to get thousands of results without going berserk was...
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