Going to the cinema is a data visualization problem
Do you like going to the cinema? I do. But I also like to know where I am going and which movie I am going to see. But how do you choose?
You can’t go to the cinema’s website. There are just too many. Of course, you might have a favorite one and always go to it, but you won’t know what you are missing out.
Then, there are aggregators. The idea is good: gather everything that’s playing in cinemas right now in one place. Flight aggregators, but for movies.
Implementation, unfortunately, is not that good. As with any other website, the aggregator’s goal is to make you go through as many web pages as possible, do as many clicks as possible, and show you as many ads as possible.
There isn’t one. I mean, there is, of course, but I tried to make it as invisible as possible. There’s no logo. No menu. No footer. No pagination. No “See more”. No ads, of course.
Slack loads 50 MB (yes, MEGA bytes) to show you a list of 10 chats. AirBnB loads 15 MB, including 500 KB HTML, just to show 20 images. LinkedIn loads 1.5 MB of just HTML (37 MB total) for a fraction of the data we’re showing. So we are fine.
