a completely necessary personal data analysis.
i tracked every turkish series i can remember watching — the ones i loved, the ones i abandoned, and the ones i somehow watched for 100+ hours despite not even liking them.
scroll ↓01 · the archive
one dot for every turkish series i can remember watching. this is the whole archive. (this is not literally every turkish show i have ever seen. a few childhood-era shows i only vaguely remember — gümüş, ıhlamurlar altında, gönülçelen, and others — did not make it.)
hover or tap a dot for show details02 · what happened to them?
some i finished. some i'm still watching. thirty-three were abandoned.
hover or tap a dot for show details03 · commitment vs. taste
mostly. here, rating moves vertically and percent watched moves horizontally. bigger circles mean more hours of my life.
hover or tap a dot for show details04 · questionable commitments
a low rating did not always mean i stopped watching.
hover or tap a dot for show details05 · the untouchables
these are the shows that stayed at the top.
hover or tap a dot for show details06 · apparently, i have patterns
the notes point to a few recurring reasons i kept watching, lost interest, or went back for a rewatch.
hover or tap a dot for show details171.8 days
estimated, obviously. turkish episodes are long, my memory is imperfect, and several progress counts are approximations. still: the number is concerning.
each dot is one show.
methodology
this dataset is based on my own viewing history. i listed every turkish series i could remember watching, then recorded how many episodes i watched, whether i finished or abandoned it, my rating, whether i rewatched it, and any notes i remembered about the experience.
where i remembered an exact episode count, i used it. where i only remembered watching something like “half,” “most,” or “almost all”, i converted those descriptions into approximate percentages.
my estimates use 25% for “some” or “a few episodes,” 45% for “almost halfway,” 50% for “halfway,” 60% for “a good amount,” 80% for “most,” and 90% for “almost all.”
estimated viewing time is calculated from episodes watched × approximate episode runtime. turkish television episodes can be very long, runtimes vary, and memory is imperfect, so the final number should be read as an estimate rather than an audit of my life choices.
analysis and visualization built with javascript and d3.js.