Ian Fleming
The New York Times, IN AN ENTRY IN ITS UPSHOT BLOG, performs a bit of numerical analysis on James Bond.
The Upshot used this week’s 50th anniversary of the death of 007 creator Ian Fleming to examine Bond. The Upshot stresses data-based reporting. The newspaper started the blog after Walt Disney Co.’s ESPN purchased the FiveThirtyEight blog, which used to appear on the NYT’s website, from journalist-statistician Nate Silver, who now works for ESPN and its sister company ABC News. Silver gained fame for using data to project the winners of political races.
The Upshot describes itself as providing “news, analysis and graphics about politics, policy and everyday life.” (For more information, you can CLICK HERE.)
The Bond post by Alan Flippen includes graphics about which authors wrote how many 007 novels (Fleming being in a tie with John Gardner at 14 each) and how many 007 movie titles are derived from Fleming. To read the entire post, CLICK HERE.
In addition, you can read the newspaper’s 1964 obituary on Fleming BY CLICKING HERE. If you want to see the obituary in its original form, you can find information on purchasing a copy, or getting a Times digital subscription BY CLICKING HERE.
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The Spy Command 
THOSE are the numbers they choose to focus on? That’s disappointing. I was hoping for real demographic information to chew on from the Upshot. I’d love to find numbers from a reliable polling company (not an Empire reader poll or something) that breaks down audiences’ favorite Bond actors and Bond movies by gender, country, race and other information. I was hoping this would be that. Do you know of anything like that?
Unfortunately not. One other thought: The Upshot appears to have overlooked novelizations. John Gardner and Raymond Benson did them but so did Christopher Wood, who doesn’t show up in the author list.