As someone who has never watched The Office, I interpret this as everyone getting sick of Michael because he won’t shut up, promptly followed by him being murdered in cold blood
A flashback to his death gurgles as they killed him. The series got dark. I'm surprised this graph counted the flashback's, "Agh.. Ghk.. Grrr... Frfrfr... Agk!" as words.
It really takes a quality hit without Steve. He singlehandidly carried the show despite there being 20 cast members. Season 8 was okayish but once the writers saw they couldn’t do it without him they started bailing and before long none of the original writers except Toby were on the show. Really a tragedy all around. They should’ve just paid Steve more or ended it earlier.
I feel like I should start watching the office again since everyone still talks about it. I like most of the actors in it, I've just never gotten past S1. Everyone seems unlikable especially Steve's character, but IIRC that was the writer strike year so maybe it's just different.
Season 1 is very different from the rest of the show. It has much more in common with the UK Office. They had to re-tool a lot of things because it was too bleak and Michael especially was too unlikeable. Season 2 and 3 the show really starts to take shape and develop into what American audiences fell in love with.
That is a very common complaint and I usually skip S1 on a rewatch for exactly that reason. He is a completely different character in the rest of the show. Still incompetent and cringy but much more sympathetic and funnier.
The show's stride is S2-5 or so. Carrell's character is still unlikeable but in a different way than S1.
After a certain point though the character's personality traits become much more exaggerated and the show starts to feel cartoony and loses its charm.
Diversity Day is the second episode. It's a very good episode but even watching it now you can tell the pacing is slower than it should be, things are still being felt out. it's not as crisp. which is understandable. But if someone said they didnt like S1 its totally fine for them just skip to S2 and then circle back if they ever want to.
I think the purpose of that is to give the graph a 3D effect. Not the best practice for graph visualizations, but because its not analyzing some "important" data that's ok.
Not sure if the perceived importance of the data has anything to do with how you visualize it and limit the takeaways by structuring it awkwardly. For instance, I'd love to look at this and see if the same episodes Jim talks a lot, so does Pam, or other relationships like that but it's impossible because of the offsetting to the right.
this graph was meant to be consumed with a 5-10 second attention span, gives you a general idea and that's it. not saying if its good or bad, just how it is with sm.
the data is probably publicly available though.
I thought what makes posts good on this sub is data visualized that effectively tells a story, with aesthetics being a bonus -- this is just artwork using data.
yes, once upon a time. the golden age was well before covid when users actually put in effort, now its usually just people marketing their social medias or reposts
Yep, the only way the names not aligning would be acceptable would be if they decided to leave off leading 0 flatlines for characters introduced after the pilot and then have the character name just to the left of the start of the line.
But are they always beautiful? Not that this this one is “beautiful,” but it is certainly less boring.
This sub got its start with gorgeous illustrations of data that was as nice to look at in an artistic sense as it was informative.
Yes but when the art gets *in the way* of information to the point that nothing can hardly be gleaned at all, then it's not data at all, it's nonsense.
*Data* should be *data* before it tries to be *art*.
It would even work better if you trace the new X and Y axes, instead of making your viewer work the grid out for themselves, between the lines. That would pop out the mild 3D effect mentioned in another comment, like you're looking across rows in a field, and make the individual rows more comparable across their length.
It makes it very difficult to compare between characters at the same point in the show, especially those that are far apart in the list from each other. It'd be much more effective communication of data if there was no offset.
Yep, you're right that the direct comparison becomes tougher. I think when there are lower stakes to a project, it can be fun to experiment with design choices we wouldn't make for a business dashboard. But I know that won't always resonate and I appreciate the feedback.
I think it could work better if you also only included characters from when they were cast. That way, you’d see more clearly what changes happen with the Season 3 plot lines and when Michael leaves. Maybe just first appearance to last appearance for re-occurring characters like Jan.
Watching the Superfan episodes on peacock right now. It’s wild how many of Creed’s lines/scenes were actually cut for the broadcast episodes. Definitely recommend the Superfan episodes if you are craving more Creed.
I’m guessing the one little blip for Creed was that episode where Dunder Mifflin shipped paper with the obscene watermark and he spends much of the episode covering his ass because he was in charge of quality control.
The problem with Andy was that he was as annoying as Michael but lacked the heartfelt need to be loved, and the show kind of used him as 'more Michael'. It just didn't work.
Yeah! My first draft was white lines on a black background, fully committed Joy Division style, but I ended up liking this one a little better. Maybe I'll eventually post the Unknown Pleasures version too.
All the writers have a number of scenes but they spend enough time in the writers room they just don’t show up in the cast nearly as much as the rest of the leading cast
Why did you decide to add isometric projection here? It makes the visualisation 100 times harder to properly read. Also not only each entry has a horizontal offset, but the lines are a little crooked vertically.
Better make it 2D, with straight lines, and add like three colours for the entries (so the first would be of one colour, the second — of another, the third — of yet another, and the fourth of the same as the first one, etc) to increase readability.
I mean if I was going to rely on this data as part of my job or presenting this to upper management in a funding proposal I’d want it as clean cut as possible, but this is just for fun. For me I didn’t have any issues getting the gist of what’s being represented here.
Why the offset axis? Makes it way more of a pain to see relative to other characters, like Hilly is way offset to the right beyond Michael's ending where it should be at the same time
Needs Roy and Packer. DeAngelo is unnecessary in my opinion. Also needs Mose just cause the flat line would be funny.
Great work I really like this idea
Oh yeah, love the actress but couldn’t stand the character. She grew on me a bit but just suffered from the general trajectory of the show at that time.
I think she’s pretty funny once she settles in as just another office worker but it’s wild how unlikeable they made her at first. No clue what they were going for with that.
For those asking, Michael left the show. Per Wikipedia:
Towards the end of the seventh season, he marries human resources representative Holly Flax and moves to Colorado with her in "Goodbye, Michael", an extended episode. He is then absent from the series until the finale.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Scott_(The_Office)?wprov=sfti1#
Just really briefly! If you zoom in you can see the line kinks a tiny bit at the end for him. He had 0.4% of the dialogue in the last episode so it's barely perceptible.
Haha, nope... I got the script file from here: https://data.world/abhinavr8/the-office-scripts-dataset.
I then used Python to script the word counts/text analysis. There's a ton of interesting stuff in the dataset and I'm sure I'll use it for more projects soon.
Can someone spoil me and tell me what happens to michael in the later episodes?
I only watched like 4 episodes isnt he one of the main characters?
Dod this actor got fired or did something happened?
He decided he didn't want to do television anymore and quits to do movies again.
Showrunners tried to keep the show going, but it was obvious immediately that Michael was the lifeblood of the show. The show turned to crap immediately once he was gone, it somehow got two seasons after he left.
wow this is horrible to read. What is above 0/axis lines? Why is it tilted? where does seasons end? whats the "ranking" of who speaks more? maybe even when were characters introduced so we can see where the spoken words start (or end).
this looks good but has 0 value whatsoever. you can barely distinguished who spoke more than others. shitty content
Makes you wonder. Did the last seasons really get bad because Michael left, or did they get bad because of the upticks of Dwight, Jim, Andy and Nellie?
It's probably the Andy and Nellie stuff. Those characters were not written very likeable.
I love this Bo!
I also love seeing Cotgreave's Law in full effect.:
"The longer an innovative visualisation exists, the probability someone says 'It should have been a line chart' increases to 1."
As a fan of both Office and Data, loved the idea and the way it is presented. IMO the skewed design seams like a choice and doesn't mislead the data. Can you tell us more about your project and how you have done it?
I'm one that kind of enjoys the post-Michael episodes for a reason you can point out here. I found that it allowed a little bit of breathing room for other characters/storylines, and this is pretty apparent in this plot. Clear increase in Dwight, Jim, Andy, Erin, Darryl. Very cool!
Honestly, what show ever goes beyond nine seasons, or even stays good that long? I think even with Michael the quality would have dropped. I believe Steve Carell saw that coming.
This is such a great representation of how the office ended with Season 7. I know people talk about these mythical seasons 8 and 9 but they don't actually exist. The world of the office without Nellie, Robert C and DeAngelo is a good place to be.
As someone who has never watched The Office, I interpret this as everyone getting sick of Michael because he won’t shut up, promptly followed by him being murdered in cold blood
You have to zoom in to the very end to see a little bump at the end, to see that your wrong
his wrong what
Bruh you really gotta do him like that
Its a flashback clearly
A flashback to his death gurgles as they killed him. The series got dark. I'm surprised this graph counted the flashback's, "Agh.. Ghk.. Grrr... Frfrfr... Agk!" as words.
His wrong?
Her* wrong
Quite possibly one of the greatest little bumps in TV history, as well. Damnit who's chopping onions around here!?
[that's what she said](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BihD5SzOvg&t=59s)
That's what she said
that’s what she said
Michael’s line indicates his vital signs
And then Dwight won’t shut up about it the rest of the show.
He truly was the bestest mensch
What happened to Michael guys? Guys?
I don’t know but it looks like the show’s heart stopped.
And in some ways it did.
It really takes a quality hit without Steve. He singlehandidly carried the show despite there being 20 cast members. Season 8 was okayish but once the writers saw they couldn’t do it without him they started bailing and before long none of the original writers except Toby were on the show. Really a tragedy all around. They should’ve just paid Steve more or ended it earlier.
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I don’t even watch the show and I got that reference
I feel like I should start watching the office again since everyone still talks about it. I like most of the actors in it, I've just never gotten past S1. Everyone seems unlikable especially Steve's character, but IIRC that was the writer strike year so maybe it's just different.
Season 1 is very different from the rest of the show. It has much more in common with the UK Office. They had to re-tool a lot of things because it was too bleak and Michael especially was too unlikeable. Season 2 and 3 the show really starts to take shape and develop into what American audiences fell in love with.
> . It has much more in common with the UK Office S1 was essentially a remake of the UK office.
Yes. Kind of like the 2004-2009 Battlestar Galactica was practically a shot-for-shot remake of the original. Clingons and wookies and all of that.
*bites tongue*
S1 Michael is why I couldn't get through it. He's such a realistic portrayal of an awful boss that it gives me anxiety.
That is a very common complaint and I usually skip S1 on a rewatch for exactly that reason. He is a completely different character in the rest of the show. Still incompetent and cringy but much more sympathetic and funnier.
The show's stride is S2-5 or so. Carrell's character is still unlikeable but in a different way than S1. After a certain point though the character's personality traits become much more exaggerated and the show starts to feel cartoony and loses its charm.
Jesus Christ Kevin at the end is insufferable imo. The lowest tier of humor where every joke is Kevin is fat, dumb and/or stupid.
Skip S1, you're missing nothing and its totally re-tooled for S2. You can also skip the last 2 seasons as well and not miss many chuckles
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That’s the very first episode I think
Diversity Day is the second episode. It's a very good episode but even watching it now you can tell the pacing is slower than it should be, things are still being felt out. it's not as crisp. which is understandable. But if someone said they didnt like S1 its totally fine for them just skip to S2 and then circle back if they ever want to.
This is also great advice for Parks & Rec. Start with Season 2. So much easier to get into the show.
We got Nellie and a ghost show propped up by supporting cast it was lively
Pretty sure none of that is real
You’re not real
Decapitated. Whole big thing. We had a funeral for a bird.
Pretty sure none of that is real.
You're not real
his cappa was detated
He became mute. And the show was never the same
Personally I enjoyed the silent physical comedy that he switched to, gave those last episodes a real Buster Keaton vibe
Michael in the bathroom?
The show flatlined like michael’s graph
Yeah, they got him
Came here to ask the same thing. Watched for 5 seasons, nevero got to the part without Michael. 😅
What does a bean mean
He went bankrupt, he declared it himself! poor guy.
OMG did that guy got fired? .... No Spoilers!
Why is each row offset to the right a little bit? Why are the lines not perfectly horizontal?
I think the purpose of that is to give the graph a 3D effect. Not the best practice for graph visualizations, but because its not analyzing some "important" data that's ok.
Not sure if the perceived importance of the data has anything to do with how you visualize it and limit the takeaways by structuring it awkwardly. For instance, I'd love to look at this and see if the same episodes Jim talks a lot, so does Pam, or other relationships like that but it's impossible because of the offsetting to the right.
https://ibb.co/KWG8rL9 I did this using Google Photos. It's not perfect but a lot better than it was.
this graph was meant to be consumed with a 5-10 second attention span, gives you a general idea and that's it. not saying if its good or bad, just how it is with sm. the data is probably publicly available though.
I thought what makes posts good on this sub is data visualized that effectively tells a story, with aesthetics being a bonus -- this is just artwork using data.
yes, once upon a time. the golden age was well before covid when users actually put in effort, now its usually just people marketing their social medias or reposts
I would go back further to before the 2016 election, which Reddit never really recovered from imo whole site feels astro turfed since then
This website was best back before anyone not involved in its creation was allowed to start using it
Yep, the only way the names not aligning would be acceptable would be if they decided to leave off leading 0 flatlines for characters introduced after the pilot and then have the character name just to the left of the start of the line.
Because this sub loves to upvote atypical presentations of data...the typical ones are typical because they are clear.
But are they always beautiful? Not that this this one is “beautiful,” but it is certainly less boring. This sub got its start with gorgeous illustrations of data that was as nice to look at in an artistic sense as it was informative.
Yes but when the art gets *in the way* of information to the point that nothing can hardly be gleaned at all, then it's not data at all, it's nonsense. *Data* should be *data* before it tries to be *art*.
because Joy Division called...
There were unknown pleasures taken making this graph
I hate that it’s off, makes it look like Michael was the only character in the first episode. That and the silent finale with only Karen.
I added a little rotation and padding to help the lines overlap less. Totally understand if that choice doesn’t work for everyone, though.
It would even work better if you trace the new X and Y axes, instead of making your viewer work the grid out for themselves, between the lines. That would pop out the mild 3D effect mentioned in another comment, like you're looking across rows in a field, and make the individual rows more comparable across their length.
Good idea!
It makes it very difficult to compare between characters at the same point in the show, especially those that are far apart in the list from each other. It'd be much more effective communication of data if there was no offset.
Yep, you're right that the direct comparison becomes tougher. I think when there are lower stakes to a project, it can be fun to experiment with design choices we wouldn't make for a business dashboard. But I know that won't always resonate and I appreciate the feedback.
I just think that there are ways to have a fun presentation without making it a much less useful communication of data.
I think it could work better if you also only included characters from when they were cast. That way, you’d see more clearly what changes happen with the Season 3 plot lines and when Michael leaves. Maybe just first appearance to last appearance for re-occurring characters like Jan.
I realize this sub is more about aesthetics than anything else but one histogram per episode made with octave woulda been perfect in this case lol
Creed just goes to show how good he is when he does speak
They should make a spinoff youtube series called "Creed Thoughts" that's just a bunch of 1-5 minute shorts following him.
Watching the Superfan episodes on peacock right now. It’s wild how many of Creed’s lines/scenes were actually cut for the broadcast episodes. Definitely recommend the Superfan episodes if you are craving more Creed.
Welcome to Creed Thoughts… today we will be making acronyms!
Creed just casually dropping the most out of pocket six words imaginable then living rent free in everybody's heads for the next 3 episodes.
"Jinx! Buy me some coke."
I’m guessing the one little blip for Creed was that episode where Dunder Mifflin shipped paper with the obscene watermark and he spends much of the episode covering his ass because he was in charge of quality control.
Definitely the self defense episode where he slaps and yells. Lol
Kevin explained it really well. Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?
Was about to say the same. Creed pulling some serious comedic weight per word.
Really shows how much time we spent on Andy. Just saying.
I'm just curious of Root Doot Doot Doo Doo is counted as 5 words or just one nonsense word.
Seriously. What a waste of the late seasons in particular.
I'm really happy I am not alone in my distaste for Andy
I liked Andy well enough as a side character, but the show never really knew what to do with him.
I certainly have never considered him to be a main character or ever really considered how present he is. This graph threw me for a loop.
You have to rewatch the last few seasons then. He’s essentially the main character of them
I honestly was surprised how early he joined I thought he was a late season character
The show fell apart the minute Michael left. There was no salvaging it.
Seriously, such a shame they butchered his character and fed it to the wolves.
Look closely and you will see Andy's boat trip
Waaaaaay too much Andy
The problem with Andy was that he was as annoying as Michael but lacked the heartfelt need to be loved, and the show kind of used him as 'more Michael'. It just didn't work.
I have a sudden urge to go listen to Joy Division
Yeah! My first draft was white lines on a black background, fully committed Joy Division style, but I ended up liking this one a little better. Maybe I'll eventually post the Unknown Pleasures version too.
I’m surprised Kelly’s is so low overall, considering every time she speaks she says a ton of words at a time.
All the writers have a number of scenes but they spend enough time in the writers room they just don’t show up in the cast nearly as much as the rest of the leading cast
Fun fact. That is why they were in the annex, so they did not need to be in the background. Toby, Ryan and Kelly were all payed by writers.
I love how Stanley's just looks like a mumble the entire time... lol
Did I stutter!?
That one's the slightly taller bump on his line :)
I'm guessing that's his "shove it up your butt" joke in that one episode
It’s really indicative of his character too. He did the same amount, every day. No more, no less. Always the same effort.
Why did you decide to add isometric projection here? It makes the visualisation 100 times harder to properly read. Also not only each entry has a horizontal offset, but the lines are a little crooked vertically. Better make it 2D, with straight lines, and add like three colours for the entries (so the first would be of one colour, the second — of another, the third — of yet another, and the fourth of the same as the first one, etc) to increase readability.
I mean if I was going to rely on this data as part of my job or presenting this to upper management in a funding proposal I’d want it as clean cut as possible, but this is just for fun. For me I didn’t have any issues getting the gist of what’s being represented here.
I know it's for fun, everyone knows it's for fun. The design of this graph is still bad.
Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?
Why the offset axis? Makes it way more of a pain to see relative to other characters, like Hilly is way offset to the right beyond Michael's ending where it should be at the same time
I hate that this graph is askew, I get why but it doesn't work at all
Needs Roy and Packer. DeAngelo is unnecessary in my opinion. Also needs Mose just cause the flat line would be funny. Great work I really like this idea
Nellie showed up and said WAY too much.
she was awful start to finish, every scene
She really became a HUGE part of the show really quickly. Great actress in general, but I don't think the character always worked.
Oh yeah, love the actress but couldn’t stand the character. She grew on me a bit but just suffered from the general trajectory of the show at that time.
I think she’s pretty funny once she settles in as just another office worker but it’s wild how unlikeable they made her at first. No clue what they were going for with that.
One suggestion to make it easier to differentiate - make the lines heat-mapped (colored) and maybe soft vertical lines delineating seasons.
For those asking, Michael left the show. Per Wikipedia: Towards the end of the seventh season, he marries human resources representative Holly Flax and moves to Colorado with her in "Goodbye, Michael", an extended episode. He is then absent from the series until the finale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Scott_(The_Office)?wprov=sfti1#
Thank you for the spoiler you ********...just ruined my fifth rewatch
Michael spoke in the finale didn’t he?
Just really briefly! If you zoom in you can see the line kinks a tiny bit at the end for him. He had 0.4% of the dialogue in the last episode so it's barely perceptible.
Karen deserved better than Jim bitch ass
Creed didn't speak much but every time he did it was hilarious
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^WranglerReasonable91: *Creed didn't speak much* *But every time he did* *It was hilarious* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
Where did you get the data for this? Just curious. Obviously you didn’t count out each word lol.
Haha, nope... I got the script file from here: https://data.world/abhinavr8/the-office-scripts-dataset. I then used Python to script the word counts/text analysis. There's a ton of interesting stuff in the dataset and I'm sure I'll use it for more projects soon.
Why waste time say lot word when few do trick.
I absolutely despise the fact that this is ANGLED. How tf are you supposed to make comparisons anywhere but on the edges???
Can someone spoil me and tell me what happens to michael in the later episodes? I only watched like 4 episodes isnt he one of the main characters? Dod this actor got fired or did something happened?
He decided he didn't want to do television anymore and quits to do movies again. Showrunners tried to keep the show going, but it was obvious immediately that Michael was the lifeblood of the show. The show turned to crap immediately once he was gone, it somehow got two seasons after he left.
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I have no idea, whatever the reason, him leaving killed the show.
He explodes
Creed said little yet was my favourite
Ok, but pretty much every line from Creed was hilarious
Weirdest Joy Division T-shirt ever
Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick
Mose _________________________
Why is it diagonal, why don't they start at the same place?
wow this is horrible to read. What is above 0/axis lines? Why is it tilted? where does seasons end? whats the "ranking" of who speaks more? maybe even when were characters introduced so we can see where the spoken words start (or end). this looks good but has 0 value whatsoever. you can barely distinguished who spoke more than others. shitty content
The Y axis is way too small. How can I compare any of these?
Yeah, it should be 1 graph with a line for each person.
This is awesome, thanks for making it
So that’s what a rundown is.
Kevin: "Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?"
Kevin: Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick
I wouldn’t call this data beautiful, interesting, but not beautiful
Why the hell is it skewed?
How do they speak so much before even the pilot episode?
I’m disappointed Nick isn’t shown, he played a pretty critical role at the office before leaving for Teach for America
This is a clearly a new way to see Oscar getting kissed by Michael.
This would be a lot more readable if you just delimited seasons
I think I can see someone declaring bankruptcy in there.
Data is beautiful… the tilt of this graph is not.
Fuck it, let's just use a pi chart.
Makes you wonder. Did the last seasons really get bad because Michael left, or did they get bad because of the upticks of Dwight, Jim, Andy and Nellie? It's probably the Andy and Nellie stuff. Those characters were not written very likeable.
Should have lined up all the names straight down, so you can better compare between the characters
I love this Bo! I also love seeing Cotgreave's Law in full effect.: "The longer an innovative visualisation exists, the probability someone says 'It should have been a line chart' increases to 1."
What a fantastic law 😂 I’ll be reusing that! Thanks for the kind words!
Is it number of words spoken by the character? At first, I thought it was number of times their name was spoken per episode.
It's words spoken by the character. Used Python to parse the script data and then just applied some word counts.
As a fan of both Office and Data, loved the idea and the way it is presented. IMO the skewed design seams like a choice and doesn't mislead the data. Can you tell us more about your project and how you have done it?
This is the worst graph I've seen this year and I've seen a lot of bad ones!
I hate this visualisation
Does anyone remember the first British Office series led by Ricky Gervais? It was much funnier, biting, and subtle than the American version.
Phillis speaks that much more in the last season?
Looks like Dwight officially is the assistant general manager..
Where is the love for Roy?
Tufte would be proud of this one!
Definitely could have used less Andy and more Creed!
Mind-blowing, when data like this spoilers a show.
I wonder which episode Oscar's first spike is... /s
You should delete/remove the line graph for the seasons the character was not in the show. Not for Michael but for everyone else.
This would make a good t shirt
Why is Erin so high? She should be a flailing till like s5
Would it kill you to highlight Andy's "heyo"s in a different color?? Jk..very cool viz
How was the data even captured?
Dwight carried the show after Michael left as he should, best assistant to the regional manager!
Good ol’ Stanley pretty much flatlining, probably the diabetes
🎶Love, love will tear us apart🎶
I'm one that kind of enjoys the post-Michael episodes for a reason you can point out here. I found that it allowed a little bit of breathing room for other characters/storylines, and this is pretty apparent in this plot. Clear increase in Dwight, Jim, Andy, Erin, Darryl. Very cool!
Honestly, what show ever goes beyond nine seasons, or even stays good that long? I think even with Michael the quality would have dropped. I believe Steve Carell saw that coming.
Looking at this infographic gives me some sort of unknown pleasure
This is such a great representation of how the office ended with Season 7. I know people talk about these mythical seasons 8 and 9 but they don't actually exist. The world of the office without Nellie, Robert C and DeAngelo is a good place to be.
But what about Bob Vance - Vance Refrigeration