Rumors vs. Reality: What questions do you want to see answered with hard data at next year's festival?
Hi Everyone! :)
I'm going to be presenting at next year's Murder, She Wrote Festival and am looking for your input! Given that the show is so formulaic, it is perfect for some really fun deep dive analyses.
I'm a statistician and do a lot of data storytelling in my day job, so I've put my focus to deep diving into all 264 episodes (will be excluding films for this project). I've got a bunch of questions I plan on exploring but would love to hear from this wonderful community -- do you have any interesting questions about the show that could be answered through data analysis? I'm looking to capture a wide breadth of questions before starting a full series rewatch. I'll be manually collecting data points from each episode in order to answer said questions.
A sample of questions I'm thinking of including:
- General demographics of murderers and how they are related to the victim - family? business partner? rival? other?
- What's the deal with Jessica Fletcher's nieces and nephews when it comes to being a murder suspect?
- A breakdown of how Jessica closes a case: what percentage of her victories rely on physical evidence versus a killer's inevitable verbal slip-up during the final five minutes
The more questions I have, the more fun the exploration (and ultimately, the festival talk) will be, so if you've ever wondered something, let me know!