386finalproject 0.1.0

First iteration of final project for Stats 386

Movie Analysis Package (STAT 386 Final Project)

Isaac Keenan & Nick Bell

This project analyzes profitability trends in U.S. theatrical films released between 2005 and 2025 using data collected from the TMDB (The Movie Database) API. The project implements a complete data science pipeline including data collection, cleaning, analysis, visualization, documentation, and an interactive Streamlit app.

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Project Components

• Data Collection
  • Scripts to collect movie IDs and metadata from the TMDB API
  • API rate limits respected during collection
• Data Cleaning
  • Filters movies to U.S. theatrical releases with valid budget, revenue, and release dates
    • Final cleaned dataset contains 3,503 movies
• Analysis & Visualization
  • Exploratory data analysis and statistical tests
  • Visualizations of profit over time, profit by genre, studio performance, and budget–revenue relationships
• Interactive App
  • Streamlit app for interactive exploration of the cleaned dataset
• Documentation & Report
  • Quarto website hosted via GitHub Pages
  • Includes package documentation, tutorial, and final written report

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