Scraping data from One Piece

Introduction

Over the last year I have been watching a show called One Piece, it has over 1160 episodes. It is one of the highest rated TV shows on IMDb and is still making new episodes weekly. I wanted to scrape through IMDb and look through the shows data from their first three full years of episodes (2000-2002) and the three most recent full years (2023-2025).

How to find my data

You can access the data I scraped, in separate code, through this URL. https://myxavier-my.sharepoint.com/:x:/g/personal/kovacf_xavier_edu/IQDWg5DbeL5tSbmgJ-tI1jwvATnz8zcJBPon-b2SO0w2yiE?download=1

Creating Visualizations

My goal was to create visualizations to see how much more popular One Piece has become over the last 27 years. I created graphs for ratings over the years, the average reviews for each year, the distribution of ratings through those years,

1. Average Ratings Over The Years

We see that over these six years the show consistently gets rated around 8.09. However in 2023-25 the average rating is 8.47 and the first three years of the show is 7.69. So this shows us that even though the show has been going on for 27 years, it keeps up the consistency of the content.

2. The Average Reviews for Each Year

In this graph we can clearly see the popularity of One Piece sky rocket. In the first three years of the show the average amount of reviews is less than half of the three most recent years.

3. Distributions of Ratings

This graph shows us that the median rating is rising each year proving that the quality of the episodes improves over the years. The boxes and whiskers get smaller meaning the ratings become more consistent, fewer highs and lows. The outliers decrease which means they are producing less lower-rated episodes.

4. Number of Episodes per Year

This graph shows the consistency of One Piece episode production over the years. The first three years on average produced more episodes than the last three years. This is a case of quality over quantity, with the previous graphs proving that One Piece is consistently good even though there are less episodes per year.

5. Highest Rated Episodes

I wanted to list out the top 10 rated episodes during these 6 years. The average rating of these episodes is 9.73/10. All of these episodes are from 2023-2025.

# A tibble: 10 × 3
   episode_name                                      episode_date episode_rating
   <chr>                                             <chr>                 <dbl>
 1 S1.E1136 ∙ Kuma's Life                            7/13/2025              9.81
 2 S1.E1153 ∙ The Upheaval of an Era! The Color of … 12/14/2025             9.81
 3 S1.E1062 ∙ The Three-Sword Style of the Supreme … 5/21/2023              9.71
 4 S1.E1089 ∙ Entering a New Chapter! Luffy and Sab… 1/7/2024               9.71
 5 S1.E1100 ∙ Powers on a Different Level! Luffy vs… 4/7/2024               9.71
 6 S1.E1112 ∙ Clash! Shanks vs. Eustass Kid          7/14/2024              9.71
 7 S1.E1114 ∙ For the Beloved Pupil - The Fist of V… 8/4/2024               9.71
 8 S1.E1115 ∙ The Navy Surprised! The Navy Headquar… 8/11/2024              9.71
 9 S1.E1122 ∙ The Last Lesson! Impact Inherited      10/13/2024             9.71
10 S1.E1128 ∙ The Nightmare Strikes - Warrior God o… 5/4/2025               9.71

Conclusion

Through this analysis it proved that One Piece is only getting better with time. Even though I am a little biased towards the show, we can see just how popular this show has become over the last 27 years.