Current state of Italian movies

Data Analytics applied to Italian movies

At the beginning of this year, after the opening in theatres of two Italian comedies, I was wondering if they really were the umpteenth comedies always starring the same actors, then I thought about evolving these feelings into a proof, showing if I were right or not.

This is more or less what happened when I thought about writing this article:

I’ve decided to represent something about Italian Movies over the last 18 years to show a trend that it’s becoming worse over the years.

So I’d like to make some premises before showing the results, thus to say that the purpose of this analysis is not to point the finger at the actors or at the movies, but it’s more about the supply and the demand, showing what’s more likely for people to watch.

Secondly, I would like to point out that I’m not a cinephile, so I don’t have such sophisticated tastes, but I think I am able to distinguish the average level of the movies.

Lastly, I’ve therefore decided to hide the names of the movies and the actors just because, as I said before, it’s not my intention to blame actors or movies. I’ve implemented a simple hash function directly on Tableau in order to map each name to one value, even in different data sources.