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Niki Tonsky

New blogpost: Going to the cinema is a data visualization problem

tonsky.me/blog/allekinos/

19 comments
olia lialina

@nikitonsky

Once there was a very charming kinoservice de.web.archive.org/web/1997021709
Self made, weekly updated. Existed in this design for more than 10 years.

Max

@nikitonsky This is amazing. Thank you! ❤️

Max

@nikitonsky Small feedback: the images of premieres don’t work for all titles, since they don’t always have the name of the movie. Adding the movie’s title as text below the image would be really helpful. 🙂

Oh and linking to a trailer of the movie would be amazing too. Not sure that’s something your dataset can offer.

Alex Levin

@nikitonsky That's very helpful website!

A couple of thoughts on usability:
* Would be nice to know all movies that are aired currently (I might be fine to go to another city, depending on the movie)
* For big cities it seems helpful to combine filters (note - looks like it's possible to do manually by editing URL)
* Would be nice to have filters for German-Dubbed/OV/OmU

Luke

@nikitonsky I love stuff like this! I have this thought with many things, but don’t know how to pull it off most of the time.

application.garden looks super cool 👀

Thanks for the post!

Raphael

@nikitonsky Very nice! 👏

Do you accept feature requests? 😬

Niki Tonsky

@OmegaPolice Always, but I don’t promise anything :)

Raphael

@nikitonsky Fair. 👍

Mostly filtering for OV (incl German originals which are rarely explizicitly labelled OV) and selecting multiple towns/cities, which I think have both been mentioned in the meantime. 😅

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Hans

@nikitonsky it is currently missing the city of Tübingen. When manually loading it via the URL, none of the movie theaters there show up, just surrounding ones.

Niki Tonsky

@SherlockHans believe it or not, but you are the second person who mentioned Tübingen specifically

Hans

@nikitonsky It is a great place — just did not expect it to be a hotbed of indie-webapp-power-users ^^

alifeee

@nikitonsky this is cool!

I think @nonnullish might like it as they've been doing similar things recently(?)

Florian Schulze

@nikitonsky where do you get the data from? I’m missing smaller cities like Fulda which has a cinemaxx or similar (not sure which chain) and even smaller cities with independent cinemas

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