Holiday Movies & Their Changes
Yellow Echidna
Nayeon Kwon, Aishwarya Gupta, Yuxuan Chen
Nayeon Kwon, Aishwarya Gupta, Yuxuan Chen
2024-02-29
Introduction
Dataset we used: holiday_movies.csv
- identifiers
- titles
- release years
- runtime
- genres
- ratings
- vote counts
- boolean flags for specific holiday keywords in the title (“Christmas,” “Hanukkah,” “Kwanzaa,” and “holiday”)
Question 1
Introduction
What’s the average rating and counts of different holiday movie genres across the decades, and which genres are the most popular for each decade?
Approach
- Current Variables: ‘average_rating’, ‘genres’, and ‘year’
- New Variables: decades (grouped from ‘year’), average rating, number of movies (from ‘genres’)
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- Stacked bar charts –> Visualize genre distribution over the decades
- Line chart –> Visualize average ratings over decades
- Faceted charts –> Visualize individual genres
Analysis
Facet Line: Interactivity
Multi-variate Regression
Call:
lm(formula = average_rating ~ genre_list.x + as.factor(decade) +
count, data = combined_data)
Residuals:
Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
-2.6835 -0.2335 0.0000 0.3614 2.0562
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 4.889e+00 5.867e-01 8.333 < 2e-16 ***
genre_list.xAdventure 3.578e-01 6.987e-02 5.122 3.22e-07 ***
genre_list.xAnimation 8.782e-01 7.154e-02 12.274 < 2e-16 ***
genre_list.xBiography 1.127e+00 8.930e-02 12.623 < 2e-16 ***
genre_list.xComedy 5.114e-01 6.845e-02 7.471 1.04e-13 ***
genre_list.xCrime 2.086e-02 7.209e-02 0.289 0.772279
genre_list.xDocumentary 1.410e+00 7.154e-02 19.705 < 2e-16 ***
genre_list.xDrama 5.222e-01 6.845e-02 7.629 3.17e-14 ***
genre_list.xFamily 6.322e-01 6.845e-02 9.236 < 2e-16 ***
genre_list.xFantasy 3.144e-01 6.845e-02 4.592 4.57e-06 ***
genre_list.xFilm-Noir 1.279e+00 1.589e-01 8.054 1.15e-15 ***
genre_list.xHistory 1.403e+00 8.313e-02 16.879 < 2e-16 ***
genre_list.xHorror -5.045e-01 7.534e-02 -6.697 2.54e-11 ***
genre_list.xMusic 1.103e+00 6.951e-02 15.869 < 2e-16 ***
genre_list.xMusical 5.277e-01 6.845e-02 7.708 1.73e-14 ***
genre_list.xMystery -8.308e-02 7.268e-02 -1.143 0.253122
genre_list.xNews 1.122e+00 1.275e-01 8.800 < 2e-16 ***
genre_list.xReality-TV 3.822e+00 1.275e-01 29.978 < 2e-16 ***
genre_list.xRomance 4.322e-01 6.845e-02 6.314 3.14e-10 ***
genre_list.xSci-Fi -7.441e-02 7.534e-02 -0.988 0.323422
genre_list.xShort 7.698e-01 7.820e-02 9.844 < 2e-16 ***
genre_list.xSport 8.442e-01 1.008e-01 8.376 < 2e-16 ***
genre_list.xTalk-Show -1.028e+00 1.275e-01 -8.065 1.05e-15 ***
genre_list.xThriller -5.102e-01 7.089e-02 -7.196 7.79e-13 ***
genre_list.xWar 1.575e+00 7.916e-02 19.900 < 2e-16 ***
genre_list.xWestern 3.224e-01 8.361e-02 3.857 0.000117 ***
as.factor(decade)1930 9.978e-01 5.862e-01 1.702 0.088844 .
as.factor(decade)1940 7.319e-01 5.855e-01 1.250 0.211392
as.factor(decade)1950 1.095e+00 5.857e-01 1.869 0.061728 .
as.factor(decade)1960 8.176e-01 5.861e-01 1.395 0.163125
as.factor(decade)1970 1.003e+00 5.855e-01 1.713 0.086899 .
as.factor(decade)1980 1.112e+00 5.851e-01 1.900 0.057532 .
as.factor(decade)1990 8.100e-01 5.853e-01 1.384 0.166487
as.factor(decade)2000 7.799e-01 5.850e-01 1.333 0.182578
as.factor(decade)2010 5.896e-01 5.849e-01 1.008 0.313542
as.factor(decade)2020 5.693e-01 5.852e-01 0.973 0.330753
count 1.001e-19 1.587e-04 0.000 1.000000
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Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
Residual standard error: 0.5827 on 2966 degrees of freedom
(147 observations deleted due to missingness)
Multiple R-squared: 0.5631, Adjusted R-squared: 0.5578
F-statistic: 106.2 on 36 and 2966 DF, p-value: < 2.2e-16Discussion
Count
Comedy Drama Comedy Drama Drama Family Family Family Comedy Comedy Romance
Decades
1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s
Avg Rating
Comedy Family Music Family Animation Music History War
War Biography Documentary
Question 2
Introduction
How did Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa movie distribution change over the years? How different are their average ratings?
Approach
- Variables: ‘christmas’, ‘hanukkah’, ‘kwanzaa’, ‘year’, and ‘average_rating’.
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- Line chart –> Visualize each holiday’s movie change over years / compare trends easily
- Bar chart –> Visualize average rating per holiday / straightforward comparison
Analysis
Discussion - Line plot
Holiday Movie Distribution Over Years
- Significant increase in Christmas movies & sharp rise in recent years
- Relative scarcity for Hanukkah and Kwanzaa movies throughout the years
- Stronger cultural or commercial emphasis on Christmas-themed content in the film industry
Discussion - Bar plot
Average Ratings
- Kwanzaa –> Hanukkah –> Christmas movies
- Potential quality-over-quantity scenario (lesser-produced holiday movies receive more favorable reviews)
- Potential of reflecting a niche audience’s rating behavior
Q&A
Thank you for listening! Any questions?
Holiday Movies & Their Changes Yellow Echidna Nayeon Kwon, Aishwarya Gupta, Yuxuan Chen 2024-02-29