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# Visualizing Breaking Bad Fan IMDB Ratings
- URL: https://www.philsimon.com/visualizing-breaking-bad-fan-ratings/
- Published: 2014-03-24T11:18:54.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-30T10:43:30.000Z
- Description: A simple yet elegant representation of the each episode's ratings.
- Author: Phil Simon
- Tags: Big Data, Dataviz, Breaking Bad, The Visual Organization

It's no secret that I enjoy *Breaking Bad*. (*Obsess* *over* might be a more apropos phrase.) My favorite episodes include the show's pilot and, for my money, Vince Gilligan's *magnum opus* "[Ozymandias](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bastard-machine/greatest-breaking-bad-episode-ever-629634?ref=philsimon.com)."

*Spoilers here. Big time.*

Now, thanks to [GraphTV](https://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/?ref=philsimon.com), you can see how fans rating all 62 episodes on IMDB with, to boot, clickable links to the [IMDB page](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1683089/?ref=philsimon.com) of each. (Note that the scales on the y-axis provide a skewed picture. In reality, the differences in fan ratings aren't as pronounced as GraphTV would suggest. See [Tufte's classic book *VDQI*](https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books%5Fvdqi?ref=philsimon.com).)

![](https://i.imgur.com/xYDK19X.png)

And you can do the same thing for other shows’ IMDB ratings, including *Mad Men* and [*Dexter*](https://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0773262?ref=philsimon.com)*,* a show that in my view jumped the shark well before its last season. Speaking of endings, I’m not the only one who found [the ending of *The Sopranos* a bit wanting](https://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0141842?ref=philsimon.com).

## Simon Says

As I write in *The Visual Organization*, we are living in an era of Big Data, open APIs, increasingly robust open-source tools, and unbridled creativity. Never before has it been so easy to represent data in interesting and *interactive* ways. GraphTV is certainly one of the coolest I've seen. While it's not a business tool for most of us, it only underscores what's possible these days.