library(dplyr)
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## The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':
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## The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
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library(readr)
# Load the movies dataset
movies <- read_csv("https://gist.githubusercontent.com/tiangechen/b68782efa49a16edaf07dc2cdaa855ea/raw/0c794a9717f18b094eabab2cd6a6b9a226903577/movies.csv")
## Rows: 77 Columns: 8
## ── Column specification ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
## Delimiter: ","
## chr (4): Film, Genre, Lead Studio, Worldwide Gross
## dbl (4): Audience score %, Profitability, Rotten Tomatoes %, Year
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## ℹ Use `spec()` to retrieve the full column specification for this data.
## ℹ Specify the column types or set `show_col_types = FALSE` to quiet this message.
one <- movies %>%
rename(movie_title = Film, release_year = Year)
head(one)
## # A tibble: 6 × 8
## movie_title Genre `Lead Studio` `Audience score %` Profitability
## <chr> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 Zack and Miri Make a Por… Roma… The Weinstei… 70 1.75
## 2 Youth in Revolt Come… The Weinstei… 52 1.09
## 3 You Will Meet a Tall Dar… Come… Independent 35 1.21
## 4 When in Rome Come… Disney 44 0
## 5 What Happens in Vegas Come… Fox 72 6.27
## 6 Water For Elephants Drama 20th Century… 72 3.08
## # ℹ 3 more variables: `Rotten Tomatoes %` <dbl>, `Worldwide Gross` <chr>,
## # release_year <dbl>
two <- one %>%
select(movie_title, release_year, Genre, Profitability)
head(two)
## # A tibble: 6 × 4
## movie_title release_year Genre Profitability
## <chr> <dbl> <chr> <dbl>
## 1 Zack and Miri Make a Porno 2008 Romance 1.75
## 2 Youth in Revolt 2010 Comedy 1.09
## 3 You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger 2010 Comedy 1.21
## 4 When in Rome 2010 Comedy 0
## 5 What Happens in Vegas 2008 Comedy 6.27
## 6 Water For Elephants 2011 Drama 3.08
three <- one %>%
filter(release_year > 2000, `Rotten Tomatoes %` > 80)
head(three)
## # A tibble: 6 × 8
## movie_title Genre `Lead Studio` `Audience score %` Profitability
## <chr> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 WALL-E Animati… Disney 89 2.90
## 2 Waitress Romance Independent 67 11.1
## 3 Tangled Animati… Disney 88 1.37
## 4 Rachel Getting Married Drama Independent 61 1.38
## 5 My Week with Marilyn Drama The Weinstei… 84 0.826
## 6 Midnight in Paris Romence Sony 84 8.74
## # ℹ 3 more variables: `Rotten Tomatoes %` <dbl>, `Worldwide Gross` <chr>,
## # release_year <dbl>
four <- three %>%
mutate(Profitability_millions = Profitability / 1e6)
head(four)
## # A tibble: 6 × 9
## movie_title Genre `Lead Studio` `Audience score %` Profitability
## <chr> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 WALL-E Animati… Disney 89 2.90
## 2 Waitress Romance Independent 67 11.1
## 3 Tangled Animati… Disney 88 1.37
## 4 Rachel Getting Married Drama Independent 61 1.38
## 5 My Week with Marilyn Drama The Weinstei… 84 0.826
## 6 Midnight in Paris Romence Sony 84 8.74
## # ℹ 4 more variables: `Rotten Tomatoes %` <dbl>, `Worldwide Gross` <chr>,
## # release_year <dbl>, Profitability_millions <dbl>
five <- four %>%
arrange(desc(`Rotten Tomatoes %`), desc(Profitability_millions))
head(five)
## # A tibble: 6 × 9
## movie_title Genre `Lead Studio` `Audience score %` Profitability
## <chr> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 WALL-E Animation Disney 89 2.90
## 2 Midnight in Paris Romence Sony 84 8.74
## 3 Enchanted Comedy Disney 80 4.01
## 4 Knocked Up Comedy Universal 83 6.64
## 5 Waitress Romance Independent 67 11.1
## 6 A Serious Man Drama Universal 64 4.38
## # ℹ 4 more variables: `Rotten Tomatoes %` <dbl>, `Worldwide Gross` <chr>,
## # release_year <dbl>, Profitability_millions <dbl>
final_df <- movies %>%
rename(movie_title = Film, release_year = Year) %>%
select(movie_title, release_year, Genre, Profitability, `Rotten Tomatoes %`) %>%
filter(release_year > 2000, `Rotten Tomatoes %` > 80) %>%
mutate(Profitability_millions = Profitability / 1e6) %>%
arrange(desc(`Rotten Tomatoes %`), desc(Profitability_millions))
head(final_df)
## # A tibble: 6 × 6
## movie_title release_year Genre Profitability `Rotten Tomatoes %`
## <chr> <dbl> <chr> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 WALL-E 2008 Animation 2.90 96
## 2 Midnight in Paris 2011 Romence 8.74 93
## 3 Enchanted 2007 Comedy 4.01 93
## 4 Knocked Up 2007 Comedy 6.64 91
## 5 Waitress 2007 Romance 11.1 89
## 6 A Serious Man 2009 Drama 4.38 89
## # ℹ 1 more variable: Profitability_millions <dbl>
Based on the dataset, the best movies (movies with the highest ratings) are not always the most profitable. For example, the movie with the highest profitability does not have the highest reviews. The best rated movie in the dataset has a low profitability
library(dplyr)
library(stringr)
library(tidyr)
genre_summary <- final_df %>%
mutate(Genre = as.character(Genre)) %>%
# split multiple genres in one cell
separate_rows(Genre, sep = ",|/|;") %>%
mutate(
Genre = str_trim(Genre),
Genre = str_to_title(Genre), # makes "comedy", "COMEDY" → "Comedy"
# manual fixes for known typos
Genre = str_replace_all(Genre, "Romence", "Romance"),
Genre = str_replace_all(Genre, "Comdey|Comdy|Comd", "Comedy")
) %>%
group_by(Genre) %>%
summarize(
avg_rating = mean(`Rotten Tomatoes %`, na.rm = TRUE),
avg_profit_millions = mean(Profitability_millions, na.rm = TRUE),
.groups = "drop"
) %>%
arrange(Genre)
head(genre_summary)
## # A tibble: 4 × 3
## Genre avg_rating avg_profit_millions
## <chr> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 Animation 92.5 0.00000213
## 2 Comedy 88.8 0.00000580
## 3 Drama 85.7 0.00000220
## 4 Romance 89 0.00000661