A graphical exploration from 1984–2009

By Jason Crowley, Brenna Curley, and Dave Osthus

Jeopardy has been a popular television game show for many years. J! Archive contains a wealth of information about this TV quiz show from 1984—its first season—to the present. We extracted data from J! Archive about each contestant—information ranging from their winnings each round to state of residence. Excluded from the data are any tournaments or specialty games such as Celebrity Jeopardy, which we consider to be a different population of interest. In the process of extracting the data, we discovered many inconsistencies, due to both rule changes over the years and irregularities within the J! Archive website.

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