We’ve used some of Kumu’s Social Network Analysis tools to scale the size of the characters based on the number of other characters they’re connected to. This gives us a perspective on which characters are the key movers-and-shakers.

Wildfire can’t tell the difference between Lannister and Tyrell

With Cersei and Ramsay as the clear winners here, it’s little surprise that these scores reward the murderous types and not the romantics—even the weddings have a reputation for being bloody!

No one is likely to forget “The Red Wedding”

Check out the interactive version of the map if you want to explore it in more detail.

Geography

From the mysterious city of Qarth on the Jade coast, through the smoking sea of Valyria, to the frostbitten Fist of the First Men in the far north—we’ve put together a closer look at the cities, towns and landmarks where the characters spend their time.

The interactive version of this map is set up so that you can select a given season to show the location of each character. Again, we’re using degree centrality to scale the characters, but this time, we’re scaling them by the number of locations they visit throughout the story.

If we look at the state of the world during the first season, Tyrion and Varys stand out as the most travelled characters in King’s Landing—which makes sense, as we know that they’ll eventually wind their way to Essos and to join the Targaryen restoration cause.

Check out the interactive version of the map if you want to explore it in more detail.

Visualising a Storyline

Have you ever wondered what a complex story looks like when you turn it into a network?

When your tool of choice is Kumu, all sorts of things do have a tendency to start looking like networks.

As an experiment we took every major chronological event from the last sixty episodes of the show and then plotted them as part of a casual flow diagram. The result is the complete visual representation of the storyline.

Want to know which events in season one were indirectly responsible for Robb Stark’s death at the Red Wedding? All you need to do is walk back up the network.

Almost all of the storyline runs in the tightly knit central tree, except for Daenerys’ journey through Essos, which is initially completed isolated. We can see the occasional arc escaping from the central plot, such as Robert Baratheon sending assassins, then later as Barristan, Tyrion, Varys, Theon and Yara eventually join her.

Once again, you check out the interactive version of the map if you want to explore it in more detail.