‘YOUR JOY WILL TURN TO ASHES IN YOUR MOUTH.’

– TYRION LANNISTER, Season 2, Episode 8

Shooting arrows at lover. Divorce by dog attack. Beheading future wife’s father. Death by fire. Crunching heads. Giving birth to smoke babies. Killing at weddings. If these things sound familiar and interesting, we have a similar taste.

I took up a personal project to gather data related to game of thrones in a structured query-able format. I applied some web scrapping techniques to few websites and extracted the data. I have uploaded the data in various formats on git and have writen briefly about it. To read the description and for links to download data, visit my blog post- Game of Data

After gathering the data, I decided to do some cursory EDA as well. Let’s jump right into the Game of Graphs. Feel free to draw inferences and play around with the data and visualizations and do share it with me. Note that since I started generating data early in Season 6, this may not be up to date.

Since, the memories of Battle of the Bastards is fresh, let’s first see some graphs related to all the wars and battles in Westeros. Clearly, you are better off attacking someone than being attacked. This should be obvious given you are living in a world of ice zombies, dragons, mad kings and anonymous assassins.

'THE GOOD LORDS ARE DEAD, AND THE REST ARE MONSTERS.’

- BRIENNE OF TARTH, Season 5, Episode 1

If you are a Greyjoy, no one is better than you at seas. You win all the battles there. It is confusing for show watchers like me, but they have won battles in the books :) . Clearly Rob stark was on a win streak until he was killed in by the Freys during the Red Wedding, Lannister’s did pay their debts. He lost a couple of battles before that though. Joffrey and Tommen Baratheon also have a good attacking record. Also, as Joffrey Baratheon beheaded Ned Stark and Rob Stark charged towards King’s Landing, we see a large number of battles amongst the two.

Ambushes, pitched battles, raids and sieges are typical of battles fought in Westeros. Clearly, if you ambush or raid you will never loose, no matter which side you are on. Also, you are beyond the wall or in Crownlands, you are better off not attacking. Remember Battle of Castle Black and Battle of Blackwater?

If you are interested, you can clearly see the size of the army has no impact on the outcome of the war. This was bolstered by the Battle of the Bastards too.

'WHEN YOU PLAY THE GAME OF THRONES, YOU WIN OR YOU DIE.’

– CERSIE LANNISTER, Season 1, Episode 7

This should not come as a surprise to the ones who have either watched the show or read the books. If you are a citizen of Westeros, you can literally die at any moment as your fate is decided by an old man whose chances of dying are same as the characters in the books/series.

'A GIRL GIVES A MAN HIS OWN NAME?’

-JAQEN H’GHAR, Season 2, Episode 7

Let’s deviate from the battles and wars to the civilization of the seven kingdoms. The seven kingdoms have a wide variety of cultural values. Ranging from the Northmen to the Riverman and from the Dothrakis to the Giants. The top three cultures are Northmen, Andals and the Free Folks. (These numbers are from the characters that have appeared in the TV series and not the actual numbers)

'NEITHER GODS NOR MEN WILL EVER COMPEL ME TO LET YOU TURN CASTERLY ROCK INTO YOUR WHOREHOUSE.’-

TWYIN LANNISTER, Season 3, Episode 1

We have seen that allegiance and religion plays vital role in how people live their life, or I better say take other’s life. Though many characters have been mentioned in the series who are loyal to the Targaryens but the most powerful houses have been the Starks, the Lannnisters and the Baratheons. There are not many characters that you can recall from the Night’s Watch, however they are a big community guarding the three hundred miles long wall. Faith of the seven and the old gods of the forest have the most followers. Though there are fewer followers of the God of Death and many faced Gods, it is quite popular amongst fans like me.

'IT’S THE FAMILY NAME THAT LIVES ON. IT’S ALL THAT LIVES ON.’

- TYWIN LANNISTER, Season 1, Episode 7

I am Lord Harshit, of the House Tiwari, First of this name, Developer of the Code, Nightmare of the bugs, Maester of Codes, first of this visualization and protector of the realm. Yes, you guessed it right. We are moving to the titles awarded and self-proclaimed by individuals. To be honest, it would be tough to keep up with the names people have. Khaleesi tops the list with 8 names followed by Stannis Baratheon. If you were in Westeros, chances are you would be knight. Feel free to look into all the names you can pick for yourself from the list.

'IF YOU EVER CALL ME SISTER AGAIN, I’LL HAVE YOU STRANGLED IN YOUR SLEEP.’

-CERSEI LANNISTER,Season 3, Episode 8

Let’s see families briefly. If you are in Westeros, you are more likely have a brother than a sister. But the good thing is lately George R R Martin has realized the power of women and has given them lead roles in the series. Also, on a lighter note you are more likely to have father than a mother and not surprisingly Sansa Stark has most relatives ;)