# Load necessary libraries
library(dplyr)
## 
## Attaching package: 'dplyr'
## The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':
## 
##     filter, lag
## The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
## 
##     intersect, setdiff, setequal, union
library(readr)

# Global options
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)

# Load 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
## 
## 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.

Q1: rename()

question_one <- movies %>%
  rename(movie_title = Film,
         release_year = Year)
head(question_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>

Q2: select()

question_two <- question_one %>%
  select(movie_title, release_year, Genre, Profitability, `Rotten Tomatoes %`)
head(question_two)
## # A tibble: 6 × 5
##   movie_title               release_year Genre Profitability `Rotten Tomatoes %`
##   <chr>                            <dbl> <chr>         <dbl>               <dbl>
## 1 Zack and Miri Make a Por…         2008 Roma…          1.75                  64
## 2 Youth in Revolt                   2010 Come…          1.09                  68
## 3 You Will Meet a Tall Dar…         2010 Come…          1.21                  43
## 4 When in Rome                      2010 Come…          0                     15
## 5 What Happens in Vegas             2008 Come…          6.27                  28
## 6 Water For Elephants               2011 Drama          3.08                  60

Q3: filter()

question_three <- question_two %>%
  filter(release_year > 2000, `Rotten Tomatoes %` > 80)

head(question_three)
## # A tibble: 6 × 5
##   movie_title            release_year Genre    Profitability `Rotten Tomatoes %`
##   <chr>                         <dbl> <chr>            <dbl>               <dbl>
## 1 WALL-E                         2008 Animati…         2.90                   96
## 2 Waitress                       2007 Romance         11.1                    89
## 3 Tangled                        2010 Animati…         1.37                   89
## 4 Rachel Getting Married         2008 Drama            1.38                   85
## 5 My Week with Marilyn           2011 Drama            0.826                  83
## 6 Midnight in Paris              2011 Romence          8.74                   93

Q4: mutate()

question_four <- question_three %>%
  mutate(Profitability_millions = Profitability / 1e6)

head(question_four)
## # A tibble: 6 × 6
##   movie_title            release_year Genre    Profitability `Rotten Tomatoes %`
##   <chr>                         <dbl> <chr>            <dbl>               <dbl>
## 1 WALL-E                         2008 Animati…         2.90                   96
## 2 Waitress                       2007 Romance         11.1                    89
## 3 Tangled                        2010 Animati…         1.37                   89
## 4 Rachel Getting Married         2008 Drama            1.38                   85
## 5 My Week with Marilyn           2011 Drama            0.826                  83
## 6 Midnight in Paris              2011 Romence          8.74                   93
## # ℹ 1 more variable: Profitability_millions <dbl>

Q5: arrange()

question_five <- question_four %>%
  arrange(desc(`Rotten Tomatoes %`), desc(Profitability_millions))

head(question_five)
## # 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>

Q6: combined pipeline

final <- 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)
## # 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>

Q7: interpretation

From the resulting data, high Rotten Tomatoes scores do not always equal high profitability — critical acclaim and box-office/Profitability don’t always align.

library(dplyr)
library(stringr)

### EXTRA CREDIT: summary by Genre
extra <- movies %>%
  rename(movie_title = Film,
         release_year = Year) %>%
  mutate(
    Profitability_millions = Profitability / 1e6,
    # Clean Genre robustly
    Genre_clean = str_to_lower(Genre),                   # lowercase
    Genre_clean = str_replace_all(Genre_clean, "[^a-z ]", ""),  # remove non-letter characters
    Genre_clean = str_trim(Genre_clean),                # remove spaces
    Genre_clean = ifelse(Genre_clean == "comdey", "Comedy", Genre_clean)
  ) %>%
  group_by(Genre_clean) %>%
  summarize(
    avg_rating = mean(`Rotten Tomatoes %`, na.rm = TRUE),
    avg_profitability = mean(Profitability_millions, na.rm = TRUE)
  )

head(extra)
## # A tibble: 6 × 3
##   Genre_clean avg_rating avg_profitability
##   <chr>            <dbl>             <dbl>
## 1 action            11          0.00000125
## 2 animation         74.2        0.00000376
## 3 comdy             13          0.00000265
## 4 comedy            43.8        0.00000388
## 5 drama             51.5        0.00000841
## 6 fantasy           73          0.00000178