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FiveThirtyEight provides us with A Statistical Analysis of the Work of Bob Ross.
From the article:
As a consummate teacher, Bob Ross guided fans along as he painted "happy trees, "almighty mountains," and "fluffy clouds" over the course of his 11-year television career on his PBS show, "The Joy of Painting." In total, Ross painted 381 works on the show, relying on a distinct set of elements, scenes and themes, and thereby providing thousands of data points.
Statistical analysis of each episode follows.
So, if you too are stuck dealing with spreadsheet manipulation today. Have a moment of Happy Trees.
I'll call this one Clyde.
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Something you do not believe.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday April 15 2014, @06:02PM
Meh, I'm never impressed much with descriptive statistics, and these were some of the less useful. Its all about items in the pictures, like a bean counter taking inventory.
Not even mentioned is the monotony of composition, Bob's overwhelming, and none too subtle preference for left side focus isn't even addressed.
Bob seldom achieved a sense of atmospheric interaction with his subject matter. Rare example, top row left, where he captures the layered shades of grey of progressively more remote ridge tops, (Something that is hard to capture with the best photographic equipment, but which the eye perceives instantly. In Bob's paintings, distance is seldom accompanied by filtration effects, his distant mountain peaks are as sharp as the foreground.
These are formula pictures, each quite pleasing in themselves, but invariably leading to the conclusion that having seen one, you've seen them all.
Like most merely descriptive statistical "analysis" endeavors, the reader is left with a lot of meaningless numbers, and very little understanding of the subject matter at hand. Had the page not included the thumbnails of the art, it would have bored any sentient being to tears.
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