movies: Movie information and user ratings from IMDB.com.

Description Details Value Note References Examples

Description

The internet movie database, http://imdb.com/, is a website devoted to collecting movie data supplied by studios and fans.

Details

It claims to be the biggest movie database on the web and is run by amazon. More about information imdb.comcan be found online, http://imdb.com/help/show_leaf?about, including information about the data collection process, http://imdb.com/help/show_leaf?infosource.

Value

A data frame with 4848 rows and 24 variables.

Note

Movies were selected for inclusion if they had a known length, had been rated by at least one imdb user and had an mpaa rating. The data set contains the following fields:

title.

Title of the movie.

year.

Year of release.

budget.

Total budget (if known) in US dollars

length.

Length in minutes.

rating.

Average IMDB user rating.

votes.

Number of IMDB users who rated this movie.

r1-10.

Multiplying by ten gives percentile (to nearest 10%) of users who rated this movie a 1.

mpaa.

MPAA rating.

action, animation, comedy, drama, documentary, romance, short.

Binary variables representing if movie was classified as belonging to that genre.

References

Credit: This data set was initially constructed by Hadley Wickham at http://had.co.nz/data/movies

Examples

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