Artometrics FRANCHISE report — data provenance (updated 2026-10-11)
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Access date for new fetches: 2026-10-11 (UTC). Licence notes per row in sources.csv.

Primary franchise ledger (charts 1–6, 11, 14–15, entity rollups)
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File: franchise.csv
Origin: TidyTuesday 2019-07-02 — Media Franchise Revenues
URL: https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/main/data/2019/2019-07-02
Upstream: Wikipedia “List of highest-grossing media franchises” (July 2019 scrape) — S007
License: Community dataset; Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 — revenue figures are editorial estimates.
SHA-256: 6e556287bad580be04e14d346036a8453f7ce975a7b26cf47d2057b873be1090

2019 ↔ 2026 name crosswalk (chart 10, owner_now / revenue_2026)
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File: franchise_crosswalk_2019_2026.csv — hand-built; one row per 2019 franchise; no fuzzy matching.
Files: wikipedia_franchise_revenue_2026.csv, franchise_revenue_2019_vs_2026.csv, raw/wikipedia_franchises_2026-10-11.json
Origin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_media_franchises (MediaWiki API, User-Agent ArtometricsResearch/1.0)
Source id: S017
License: CC BY-SA

Sources registry
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File: sources.csv (74 rows; verified URLs/DOIs checked 2026-10-11)
Companion: research/source-cards.md

Verified headline figures
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File: verified_numbers.csv — recomputed by scripts/franchise_verify_numbers.py

Entity sheets (Google Sheets mirror)
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entities_franchises.csv, entities_companies_deals.csv, entities_people.csv, entities_budgets_grosses.csv

Disney acquisitions (charts 8, 13)
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File: disney_acquisitions.csv + entities_companies_deals.csv
Deal prices: SEC 8-K / DEFM14A (S009–S012)

Disney segment revenue (chart 9)
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File: disney_segment_revenue_fy2024.csv — Disney Form 10-K FY2024 (S004)

Theatrical franchise share (chart 7)
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File: top10_franchise_share_by_year.csv, box_office_mojo_yearly_urls.csv (S005)

Derived analytics tables
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owner_totals_derived.csv, owner_consolidation_rules.csv, revenue_stream_shares_derived.csv,
revenue_mix_by_original_medium.csv, franchise_region_summary.csv, owner_concentration_scenarios.csv

Film budgets & grosses
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File: entities_budgets_grosses.csv — The Numbers per-film pages (S019); blank cells where fetch failed

Charts (Plotly JSON + PNG + motion HTML)
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Directory: articles/franchise/charts/ — built by articles/franchise/scripts/build_brief.R
House palette: #E60000 highlight, #0047FF comparison; DM Sans / DM Mono; n= source lines

Franchise failure casebook
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File: franchise_failures.csv — editorial case rows (S013–S016)