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The raw data behind the story "'Straight Outta Compton' Is The Rare Biopic Not About White Dudes" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/straight-outta-compton-is-the-rare-biopic-not-about-white-dudes/. An analysis using this data was contributed by Pradeep Adhokshaja as a package vignette at https://fivethirtyeightdata.github.io/fivethirtyeightdata/articles/biopics.html.

biopics

A data frame with 761 rows representing movies and 14 variables:

title: Title of the film.
site: Text to construct IMDB url. Ex: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1711425
country: Country of origin.
year_release: Year of release.
box_office: Gross earnings at U.S. box office.
director: Director of film.
number_of_subjects: The number of subjects featured in the film.
subject: The actual name of the featured subject.
type_of_subject: The occupation of subject or reason for recognition.
race_known: Indicates whether the subject's race was discernible based on background of self, parent, or grandparent.
subject_race: Race of the subject.
person_of_color: Dummy variable that indicates person of color.
subject_sex: Sex of subject.
lead_actor_actress: The actor or actress who played the subject.

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