Divya Prabhakar

Data visualizations looking at the skin tones of actors and actresses within Indian film industries such as Bollywood, Tollywood, Kollywood. This is to quantify and visualize the colorism and racism that is embedded within the definition of opportunity. 

Indian film industries - skin color analysis

Divya, what an inspiring and important analysis! Thank you for your work! 

Side note: Playing with it, I noticed one tiny think that might help, adding `target="_blank" rel="noopener"` to the instagram link so I can keep the notebook open.

David Mora

Do you happen to have data on what the spectrum of skin colors of the local population in these regions is? It would be interesting to see how skewed this spectrum is.

(although I guess with the earlier point of the data for the actresses being "self-representation via selfie", this would raise the question of what kind of data-set would be the right point of comparison for gaining insights. Selfies again to ensure an apples-to-apples comparison? Some "objective" data-set to show how skewed the self-representation is?)

Job van der Zwan

I really like that you focus on how the actresses prefer to present themselves instead of trying to find some "objective" skin color metric; such a search for "objectivity" would be missing the whole point!