Box Office Analysis: Seeing Movie Business Through Data

Source: www.imperialtheatre.com Though we usually strive to focus on specific areas or a niche zone for in depth analysis, this time wanted to direct your attention towards a bigger picture. We believe that talking about this particular topic would help you to understand many of our future analysis, and also gives us a way to introduce you to the idea that on-the-surface stats are rarely descriptive enough to understand the situations. Today, we are going to show you a little bit of how movies have been doing over the years since records have been kept, or rather, records that IMDB has. For our analysis, we have used the list of movies in IMDB’s records till the end of 2016. Though the original dataset has 5043 movies, we had to remove duplicate entries, and even remove movies that had insufficient information and would not contribute well to our analysis. Even though there are many different categorizing levels for genres, we decided to use only a handful of primary level g...

Many of us have been an enthusiastic fan of movies and like to explore great movies through looking at different film ratings and reviews websites such as IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, etc. While reviewing the top movies list, we might be wondering, what are the primary factors that influence a movie’s success? Is it budget, box office, language, or movie genre? Hence, we, the three movie lovers and data lovers too, decided to conduct a statistical analysis regarding the influential factors of a movie’s success. We looked at IMDb  Top 500 Greatest movies of all time   and created our dataset. Our categorical variables   consist of information on certificate, genre, country, and language. ​Numerical variables   consist of information on duration, rating, vote, gross, and budget. There are 9 different certificates, 21 languages and 29 countries in total. Some movies’ gross and budget information were not available and we ignored those movies. There are some so...