Horror Movies 🧟
Overview
Purpose is to explore a dataset about horror movies dating back to the 1950s. Data set was extracted from The Movie Datbase via the tmdb API using R httr. There are ~35K movie records in this dataset.
Workshop
This repository also supports content created specifically for the Introduction to ggplot2 workshop organized the R-Ladies Paris. Participants in the workshop create a total of 3 data visuals using ggplot2 and supporting ggplot libraries. Workshop material is in an R Markdown html notebook format. You can view the html file here.
The workshop is scheduled for 1pm ET October 13th, 2022. A recording of the session will be posted on YouTube at a later date.
Workshop Materials
Libraries Used
- tidyverse
- sysfonts
- showtext
- ggimage
Data Dictionary
Note: for poster_path must be appended to this url https://www.themoviedb.org/t/p/w1280/ to generate full image!
| Variable | Type | Definition | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | int | unique movie id | 4488 |
| original_title | char | original movie title | Friday the 13th |
| title | char | movie title | Friday the 13th |
| original_language | char | movie language | en |
| overview | char | movie overview/desc | Camp counselors are stalked... |
| tagline | char | tagline | They were warned... |
| release_date | date | release date | 1980-05-09 |
| poster_path | char | image url | /HzrPn1gEHWixfMOvOehOTlHROo.jpg |
| popularity | num | popularity | 58.957 |
| vote_count | int | total votes | 2289 |
| vote_average | num | average rating | 6.4 |
| budget | int | movie budget | 550000 |
| revenue | int | movie revenue | 59754601 |
| runtime | int | movie runtime (min) | 95 |
| status | char | movie status | Released |
| genre_names | char | list of genre tags | Horror, Thriller |
| collection_id | num | collection id (nullable) | 9735 |
| collection_name | char | collection name (nullable) | Friday the 13th Collection |