oscars: Oscar winners, 1929 to 2012

In JECheadle/RSOC317L: Data Sets and Supplemental Functions from David Diez's 'OpenIntro' Textbook

Description

Best actor and actress Oscar winners from 1929 to 2012.

Usage

data(oscars)

Format

A data frame with 170 observations on the following 10 variables.

gender

Gender of winner, female or male.

oscar_no

Denotes which Oscar ceremony.

oscar_yr

Denotes which Oscar year.

name

Name of winning actor or actress.

movie

Name of movie actor or actress got the Oscar for.

age

Age at which the actor or actress won the Oscar.

birth_pl

State where the actor or actress was born, country if foreign.

birth_mo

Birth month of actor or actress.

birth_d

Birth day of actor or actress.

birth_y

Birth year of actor or actress.

Details

Although there have been only 84 Oscar ceremonies until 2012, there are 85 male winners and 85 female winners because ties happened on two occasions (1933 for the best actor and 1969 for the best actress).

Source

Journal of Statistical Education, http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/datasets/oscar2009.dat.txt (no longer valid), updated through 2012 using information from Wikipedia.org.

Examples

data(oscars)
boxPlot(oscars$age, oscars$gender)
barplot(oscars$birth_mo)
barplot(table(oscars$birth_pl))

JECheadle/RSOC317L documentation built on May 15, 2019, 4:02 a.m.