I (Michelle Frayman) love holiday movies! Maybe it is because Channukah is not as significant a holiday, so our celebrations are generally more muted, but I love how they add to the warmth and festive season. My favorite newer holiday movie is Love Actually, and my favorite classic is Meet Me in St. Louis with Judy Garland. We *might* have accidentally introduced our boys a little earlier than expected to Love Actually when my husband totally forgot a few of the plotlines. Fortunately, we all just rolled with it and everyone enjoyed it. Perhaps it is time to introduce them to some classics too.

Hello DataFamCon family! Tableau is launching their Data Plus Movies initiative, and we’re joining them on this great adventure! The challenge will run from November to April, and each month we’ll be highlighting part of their data set! Tableau is providing participants with data from IMDB. For the DataFamCon November…

Hello DataFamCon family! To celebrate the success of the Barbie movie we pulled some data about the Barbie toy and other Barbie movies. We’re also sharing the wonderful Judit’s dataset on Barbie careers. In case you missed it, a Barbie viz just made Viz of the Day too! So go forth and celebrate this social phenomenon with some awesome vizzes! Data: https://data.world/datafam-con/aa-barbie-girl-in-the-barbie-world

My (Nicole Klassen) son’s birthday is in April, and he’s turning 5 this year! So I’m taking over DataFamCon to share some kid-friendly data sets. My son loves anything related to cars, Paw Patrol, super heroes, and tv shows related to cars, Paw Patrol, and super heroes. …

Hey y’all, Jessica here! I’m so excited to co-host a #DataFamCon challenge near and dear to my heart — reality love shows. My guilty pleasure is watching The Bachelor, a reality show where a group of ladies live together and vie for the lead’s heart…and a Neil Lane diamond ring…

Agatha Christie, a British crime novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, remains the best-selling novelist of all time, outsold only by Shakespeare and the Bible. Throughout her life, she wrote 66 crime novels, six other novels, 24 plays, and more than 150 short stories. Her books have sold more than a…

Lawrence here. In 2005 when I stumbled across this new yet old sci-fi show from the BBC I never thought that 17 years later it would still be running, and I would still be watching! …

Christina here — Who would have thought a song released back in 1985 (almost exactly a year before I was born) by Kate Bush would make a 2022 Renaissance? Blame that on the clever pairing of music and script from the Duffer Brothers for their 80s-nostalgia dripped sci-fi/horror show, Stranger…

Michelle Frayman: Both my sons love the LOTR movies, but my younger son Max developed a deep passion for both the books and the movies. He loved the movies so much he asked me to make him an Eye of Sauron cake for his birthday one year.