This Map Predicts Who Will Die Next on 'Game of Thrones'

According to sophisticated machine-learning calculations, the Queen of Dragons will soon meet her demise. In early July, a computer scientist at Central European University's Center for Network Science, Milan Janosov, predicted the fates of the Game of Thrones characters that have yet to be impaled, poisoned, or have their brains bludgeoned. He quantified their social significance on the show, and then entered these numbers into a machine-learning algorithm. To create his algorithm, Janosov first built a network of the realm's social system based on how often characters interacted with each other. He pulled this data from the show's subtitles, which provided nearly 600 scenes worth of information about how often characters appeared in the same scene.