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Where Every Film Director Is From
Birthplaces of 43,619 film directors: New York and Paris lead, Prague and Copenhagen lead per head, and women rose from 3% of new directors in the 1920s to 32% in the 2020s.
This is an interactive data study by Dr Tristan Hotham, built from open data. The map runs in your browser: explore it, search for places and switch layers. The write-up explains the method and what the data shows, and the data and code are open for anyone to reuse.
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