Dr. Nick from the Simpson's

[nicolasfoss]

Hey Jon!

Has TT ever looked at Simpson's?

I thought of submitting a Simpsons's dataset that is focused on the character Dr. Nick (it would possibly give folks a chuckle because I'm sometimes called Dr. Nic by my friends).

Let me know what you think.

[jonthegeek]

Looks like we only did "Simpsons Guest Stars" in 2019:

# pak::pak("r4ds/ttmeta")
ttmeta::tt_summary_tbl |> 
  dplyr::filter(stringr::str_detect(tolower(title), "simpson"))
#> # A tibble: 1 × 8
#>    year  week date       title            source_title source_urls article_title
#>   <int> <int> <date>     <chr>            <chr>        <list>      <chr>        
#> 1  2019    35 2019-08-27 Simpsons Guest … Wikipedia    <chr [1]>   Wikipedia    
#> # ℹ 1 more variable: article_urls <list>

^{Created on 2024-11-24 with reprex v2.1.1}

We'd love a Dr. Nick dataset!

[nicolasfoss]

@jonthegeek say no more!

I will work on these datasets today.

I cloned the TT repo. Can I do a pull request from the cloned repo just as well?

[jonthegeek]

@nicolasfoss Absolutely! See the PR instructions if you haven't already!

[nicolasfoss]

Hey @jonthegeek!

So, I didn't make it all about Dr. Nick because I noticed that the last Simpsons dataset was quite different from this one. It was much smaller and all about guest characters.

For that reason, I didn't go with Dr. Nick and went with the full dataset as there are many insights to be gleaned. This issue can be closed related to my pull request if you elect to accept the dataset.

Thanks for all you do and hope your weekend wraps up nicely.

[pinballelectronica]

I just came across this repo when looking for some niche datasets and I got giddy over what y'all are doing here. I have transcribed the first 12 seasons of the Simpsons and pulled out various info from it including all Dr. Nick conversations if I can help. I've also done full transcriptions of (most) all of the Car Talk episodes including diarization and etc, built a chatbot to ask (both of them) car questions from beyond and etc. Would love to help or join.

[nicolasfoss]

Hey @pinballelectronica 👋

I have a pull request for the full Simpsons dataset from Kaggle. It has been around for a while now.

What if you did the Dr. Nick idea I had? On top of that, please consider doing the Car Talk idea! The Tidy Tuesday project needs these types of fun datasets.

I'm sure we won't get enough of the Simpsons!!