Bechdelerator

Sarah Muenzinger

sarahmunzi

Seema Ullal

seemaster

Who are We?

The Bechdel Test

The Old Way

The Future

How It Works

Get the script from IMDSB using our web scraper

request(allMovies, function(err, response, html){
    	var $ = cheerio.load(html);
	$ = cheerio.load($("h1:contains(\"All Movie Scripts\")").parent()[0])
	var movieTable = $("h1:contains(\"All Movie Scripts\")").parent();
	var allMovieTitles = $('a[href^="/Movie Scripts"]').map(function(thing){ 
	    return $(this).text()
	})
	allMovieTitles = Array.prototype.slice.call(allMovieTitles);
	res.render('./index.html', {allMovieTitles: allMovieTitles});
})

How It Works

Analyze the script using our algorithm to determine characters and the conversations that they have

var ladyConvoCount = 0;
var linesAboutMen = 0;
var nameCatcher = /\s[A-Z]+\s/g; //potential names are in all capital letters
var names = script.match(nameCatcher); //get all potential names from the script
names = names.filter(function(word){
    word = word.replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/gm,"").trim(); //remove new lines and such from the potential names
    return word.length > 1; //remove words that are either 0 or 1 letters long
});
	
var lines = script.split(nameCatcher); //'lines' are found between two names 
var conversations = [];
for(var nameIndex = 0; nameIndex < (names.length); nameIndex++){
    var convo = {};
    convo.personA = names[nameIndex];
    convo.personB = names[nameIndex+1];
    convo.line = lines[nameIndex]; //a conversation contains 2 characters and the line they say to one another
    if (convo.personA && convo.personB) {
      if(womenNames.indexOf(convo.personA.trim()) > -1 && womenNames.indexOf(convo.personB.trim()) > -1){
          ladyConvoCount++; //check if both of the characters are women
          if(convo.line.match(/he|him|his/)){
              linesAboutMen++; //if the conversation is between women, check if it is about a man
          }
      }
    conversations.push(convo);
    }
}

How It Works

Use an API to determine which characters are likely to be female (based on their names)

GET https://api.genderize.io/?name=peter


// Returns the following JSON object

{
"name":"peter",
"gender":"male",
"probability":"0.99",
"count":796
}

How It Works

Use D3 to generate a visualization of the results 

Sarah

     sarahmunzi 

www.munzicodes.com 

Seema

     seemaster

www.seemaullal.com 

Questions?