--- title: Graph TV Visualizes Shows Popularity description: The site aims to visualize IMDb ratings by episode. canonical: https://time.com/28906/this-website-graphs-the-popularity-of-tv-shows/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-18T17:30:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:07:54.875Z og:title: This Website Graphs The Popularity of TV Shows og:description: It aims to visualize IMDb ratings by episode. og:url: https://time.com/28906/this-website-graphs-the-popularity-of-tv-shows/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf94891c5d4a780c5/698685fef983e77e6d04ccdf/screen-shot-2014-03-18-at-12-09-20-pm.png?branch=production&width=750&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-03-18 at 12.09.20 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Website Graphs The Popularity of TV Shows twitter:description: It aims to visualize IMDb ratings by episode. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf94891c5d4a780c5/698685fef983e77e6d04ccdf/screen-shot-2014-03-18-at-12-09-20-pm.png?branch=production&width=750&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Website Graphs The Popularity of TV Shows  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Mar 18, 2014 5:30 PM UTC   by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Mar 18, 2014 5:30 PM UTC If you’re a data whiz who prefers to view the popularity of stuff via linear regression rather than glowing reviews, then [Graph TV](http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com) is the perfect website for you. Users type the name of a TV show and then the program “assigns a different color to each season and generates a simple linear regression from the ratings given to episodes each season,” as the app’s creator [Kevin Wu](http://kevinformatics.com), a software engineer at Academia.edu, [explains](http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/) on the app’s website. “Each point on the graph displays the episode title, rating, and other data and is clickable to reach its IMDb entry.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/28906/this-website-graphs-the-popularity-of-tv-shows/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/28906/this-website-graphs-the-popularity-of-tv-shows/"},"headline":"This Website Graphs The Popularity of TV Shows","datePublished":"2014-03-18T17:30:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:54.875Z","description":"The site aims to visualize IMDb ratings by episode.","url":"https://time.com/28906/this-website-graphs-the-popularity-of-tv-shows/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf94891c5d4a780c5/698685fef983e77e6d04ccdf/screen-shot-2014-03-18-at-12-09-20-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf94891c5d4a780c5/698685fef983e77e6d04ccdf/screen-shot-2014-03-18-at-12-09-20-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-03-18 at 12.09.20 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/28906/this-website-graphs-the-popularity-of-tv-shows/","name":"This Website Graphs The Popularity of TV Shows"}}]}] ```