Investigating Netflix Movies and Guest Stars in the Office
The IMDB website has a description of the Office (US) as
“A mockumentary on a group of typical office workers, where the workday consists of ego clashes, inappropriate behavior, and tedium.”
It is about the ‘Office’ movie series.
The data set was downloaded from Kaggle.
The dataset contains information on a variety of characteristics of each episode. In detail, these are:
- episode_number: Canonical episode number.
- season: Season in which the episode appeared.
- episode_title: Title of the episode.
- description: Description of the episode.
- ratings: Average IMDB rating.
- votes: Number of votes.
- viewership: Number of US viewers in millions.
- duration: Duration in the number of minutes.
- release_date: Airdate.
- guest_stars: Guest stars in the episode (if any).
- director: Director of the episode.
- writers: Writers of the episode.
First import the data and required libraries.
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns df = pd.read_csv(‘datasets/the_office_series.csv’)Glimpse the dataset and data preprocessing
df.info()<class 'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'>
RangeIndex: 188 entries, 0 to 187
Data columns (total 12 columns):
# Column Non-Null Count Dtype
--- ------ -------------- -----
0 Unnamed: 0 188 non-null int64
1 Season 188 non-null int64
2 EpisodeTitle 188 non-null object
3 About 188 non-null object
4 Ratings 188 non-null float64
5 Votes 188 non-null int64
6 Viewership 188 non-null float64
7 Duration 188 non-null int64
8 Date 188 non-null object
9 GuestStars 29 non-null object
10 Director 188 non-null object
11 Writers 188 non-null object
dtypes: float64(2), int64(4), object(6) memory usage: 17.8+ KB
Only the GuestStars column has missing values, missing means there is no guest stars in these episodes. Actually, the Unnamed: 0 column is the episode number column. The Date should be date type and the Season column should be a category.
# change the name of first column to 'episode_number'
df = df.rename(columns={'Unnamed: 0':'episode_number'}) # change all the column names to lower
df = df.rename(columns = str.lower) # change the type of date column
df['date'] = pd.to_datetime(df['date']) # change the type of season column to category
df['season'] = df['season'].astype('category')
Look at the data distributions.
df.hist(grid = False, color='royalblue', figsize=(12,8))
The `ratings` column has a normal distribution and the `duration`, `viewership` and `votes` columns are right-skewed. Data seems to be in the correct range. The original dataset does not contain `scaled_ratings` and `has_guests` columns. Let’s create.
`scaled_ratings` column is the normalized data from the `ratings` column. To normalize data between range 0 and 1, subtract the data with minimum value and divided it by the range of the data.
df['scaled_ratings'] = df['ratings'].apply(lambda x: (x - min(df['ratings']))/(max(df['ratings']) - min(df['ratings']))) df['scaled_ratings'].describe()count 188.000000
mean 0.511636
std 0.184353
min 0.000000
25% 0.375000
50% 0.500000
75% 0.625000
max 1.000000
Name: scaled_ratings, dtype: float64
`has_guest` column contains True or False whether the episode contained guest stars.
df['has_guest'] = [False if guest else True for guest in df['gueststars'].isna()]1. Viewership Vs Ratings and Guest Appearance
To see the relationship between viewership and ratings and guest appearance along with the series, we need to separate the data with colors and size as there are at most 3 dimensions we can draw.
Create colors of red if the scaled rating is less than 0.25, orange if less than 0.5, light green if less than 0.75, and dark green if more than 0.75.
Create different sizes of dots; the size of 250 if the episode contains guest star and 25 if does not.
col = []
for rating in df['scaled_ratings']:
if rating < 0.25:
col.append('red')
elif rating < 0.5:
col.append('orange')
elif rating < 0.75:
col.append('lightgreen')
else:
col.append('darkgreen') size = [250 if guest else 25 for guest in df['has_guest']]
Plot the figure `viewership` vs `episdoe_number`.
fig = plt.figure()
plt.scatter(x = df['episode_number'], y = df['viewership'], color=col,s = size)
plt.title('Popularity, Quality, and Guest Appearances on the Office')
plt.xlabel('Episode Number')
plt.ylabel('Viewership (Millions)');
One outlier (episode) with the scaled rating of more than 7.5 and that contains guest stars has 22.5 million viewers. What is that episode?
df[df['viewership'] == max(df['viewership'])]
episode_number 77
season 5
episodetitle Stress Relief
ratings 9.7
votes 8170
viewership 22.91
duration 60
date 2009-02-01 00:00:00
gueststars Cloris Leachman, Jack Black, Jessica Alba
director Jeffrey Blitz
writers Paul Lieberstein
scaled_ratings 0.96875
has_guest True
2. How many episodes are there in each season?
sns.countplot(x = 'season',data = df, color='darkblue') plt.xlabel('Season', fontsize = 15) plt.ylabel('Number of Episodes', fontsize=15) plt.title('Number of Episodes per season', fontsize = 20);
There are only 6 episodes in Season 1 and 14 in Season 2.
3. Top 10 episodes with highest ratings
highest_rating = df.sort_values(by='ratings', ascending=False)[['episodetitle','ratings']].iloc[:10,] sns.barplot(x = 'episodetitle', y = 'ratings', data = highest_rating, color='royalblue')
plt.title('Top 10 Episodes with Highest Ratings', fontsize=20) plt.xlabel('') plt.ylabel('Rating')
plt.ylim(9,10)
plt.xticks(rotation = 'vertical');
4. Viewership in Millions per Season
r_v = df.groupby('season')[['ratings','viewership']].mean() plt.plot(r_v.index, r_v.ratings,'b*-', label='Average rating') plt.plot(r_v.index, r_v.viewership,'r*--', label='Average Viewership')
plt.legend(loc=3)
plt.xlabel('Season')
plt.title('Average Ratings and Viewership per Season') plt.ylim(3,9.5);
I used the mean value as the numbers of episodes are different in each season. The average ratings are almost the same across the seasons but average viewers decrease from season 7 to end and season 9 has the least viewers among all seasons.
5. Does viewership increase if guest stars are present?
sns.boxplot(y = 'viewership', x = 'has_guest', data = df);
As we know there is an outlier in the `viewership` column that has guest stars. Even an outlier contains, the mean values are almost the same and viewership does not seem to increase if guest stars are present.
Originally published at Data Insight ( as part of Data Science Program )