I wonder what's the significance of these "hub" movies like "Big Momma's House" and "Passenger 57"?

Cool. Needs a Google Maps interface.

How about a Seadragon interface? http://seadragon.com/view/avv

Scrolling actually does what you think it would do. Yeah, that's really nice. I like it a lot. Thanks for the link, hadn't heard about Seadragon before. I was also alluding to the fact that you can't text search the visualization for movies ie "New York, NY" ~ "Better Luck Tomorrow", both points on an image. Maybe easier said than done, but the whole point of the visualization is to give people a better understanding of the information.

er, how does this data correlate to Maps?

it's presented in 2d, so one would want a decent 2d user interface. the existing one (on that site) works well enough for me though.

Why is it a strict 2D tree instead of a 3D mesh?

Probably just easier to display, it's going to be displayed as 2D anyway. You can be sure that the original space is many, many dimensions.

It should still be a mesh, not a tree.

The colors seem backwards to me. Red should signify the more intense connections as it is a bolder, stronger color than yellow.

Why does Lord of the Flies lead to me being recommended Lord of the Flies?

There's a 1960s version and a 1990s version -- probably one node for each

That makes much more sense now. Thanks.

Is color somehow representative of depth?