Let’s analyse some data about Pixar’s Movies and get some Insights through this process.

Introduzing and analyzing the data

Pixar Animation is one of the most well known animation studios in the world and many people worldwide religiously watch every new released film. With hits like Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Monster’s Inc, and A Bug’s Life, Pixar’s movies are adored by kids for their charming characters and by adults for their wit. While Pixar has seen a lot of success, including a successful acquisition by Disney, not every one of their movies have been a hit. In this project, I’ll explore the ups and downs of Pixar over the years primarily using data visualization. Data visualization is especially useful in this case since our sample size, only 15, is low and we can glean more general insights from exploring the data visually.

Alex Albright has put together a dataset containing critics’ ratings and opening weekend revenue for all of Pixar’s movies, which you can find on her Github repo. While this is a wonderful starting point, there’s a lot more information available for each movie that we can add.

By scraping the data from Box Office Mojo and making some adjustments, it was able to put together the following dataset. The data is upto date as of November 2015 and doesn’t contain the updated revenue numbers for Inside Out or any data on The Good Dinosaur.

Here are some of the columns in this dataset, PixarMovies.csv:

Year Released — the year the movie was released.

Movie — the name of the movie.

RT Score — the Rotten Tomatoes rating for the movie.

IMDB Score — the IMDB rating for the movie.

Metacritic SCore — the Metacritic rating for the movie.

Opening Weekend — the amount of revenue the movie made on opening weekend (in millions of dollars).

Worldwide Gross — the total amount of revenue the movie has made to date.

Production Budget — the amount of money spent to produce the film (in millions of dollars).

Oscars Won — the number of Oscar awards the movie won.

The data was added from these sources:

Box Office Mojo — www.boxofficemojo.com/

IMDB — www.imdb.com

Rotten Tomatoes — www.rottentomatoes.com

Metacritic — www.metacritic.com