Georgios Karamanis |||

TidyTuesday 2025/31

Something different for this week’s #TidyTuesday, looking at Netflix’s creative charting, as spotted by Nicola Rennie (Bluesky, LinkedIn).

I measured the actual bar lengths from Netflix’s H1 2025 engagement report and compared them to what they should be based on view counts.

Movies are more problematic, several bars are 30%+ longer than they should be. Shows bars are generally more accurate but still misleading

Code on GitHub

A horizontal bar chart recreating Netflix’s top 10 movies from H1 2025, overlaid on the original report image to reveal visual discrepancies. Red outlined bars show the proportionally correct lengths based on actual view counts, with “Back in Action” leading at 165M views. The overlay demonstrates how Netflix’s original bars don’t accurately represent the data proportions, with several movies appearing visually larger than their view counts warrant.

A horizontal bar chart recreating Netflix’s top 10 shows from H1 2025, overlaid on the original report image to expose proportional inaccuracies. Red outlined bars display the correct visual proportions based on actual view counts, with “Adolescence: Limited Series” leading at 145M views. The comparison reveals how Netflix’s original visualization misleads viewers about the relative performance differences between shows.

A dual-panel scatter plot analyzing Netflix’s bar chart accuracy. The left panel shows Movies and right panel shows Shows, both plotting actual measured bar lengths (y-axis, in pixels) against view counts (x-axis). Purple points represent Movies, teal points represent Shows. Dashed lines show proportionally correct bar lengths. Movies show larger deviations from the expected line, with several points well above it, while Shows generally follow the expected line more closely. Point labels identify specific titles.

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