#fiction

#fiction

The 50 Greatest Fictional Deaths EverWhat fictional character's death affected you the most? Which was saddest, the funniest, the most unexpected, or the goriest? Don't limit yourself to movie deaths; this list covers books, TV shows, comic strips, video games, plays, short stories, comic books, songs, and multimedia stories. Did you cry ten minutes into the Pixar movie Up? Did you gasp when Thelma and Louise drove into eternity? Were you shocked when the most famous actress in the movie Scream died in the first few minutes? Do you remember the whale in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy? Tony Soprano? How about Colonel Henry Blake? Slate runs down the 50 greatest fictional deaths from pop culture, but they don't rank them. They are listed in chronological order, starting with Euripides' play Medea. Each entry will take you back to the moment you witnessed a death that made you care one way or another, even if it was just satisfaction, when you first experienced it. -via Fark, where you'll find many others that could have made the list.(Image credit: Franco Zacharzewski)#death #deathscene #fiction 

Social Map of The WitcherNetwork mapping is a modern tool that can distill complex interactions of individuals or characters. Researchers can use it to uncover hidden patterns in relationships, hubs, and cliques and display them in a single visual map.Take, for example, the fantasy novel series The Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski, which was turned into a series by Netflix.  Data scientist Milán Janosov created the social network map by collecting a list of characters in each book from the Witcher Wiki, a platform that recorded all 690 named characters across all the books and the Netflix show. He then tokenized every book into a list of sentences and labeled each sentence by the name of the characters appearing in that sentence. From the data he collected, Janosov noticed that the resulting network had two major communities, one centered around Ciri and the other around Geralt. In addition to creating the network map, Janosov also compared the novels and the Netflix adaptation through social network analysis. The network and data science researcher used the public API of Google Trends to show the series’ impact in generating public interest.Image credit: Milán Janosov#TheWitcher #research #datascience #networkmapping #socialnetwork #fiction