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Netflix! What started in 1997 as a DVD rental service has since exploded into one of the largest entertainment and media companies.

Given the large number of movies and series available on the platform, it is a perfect opportunity to flex your exploratory data analysis skills and dive into the entertainment industry.

You work for a production company that specializes in nostalgic styles. You want to do some research on movies released in the 1990's. You'll delve into Netflix data and perform exploratory data analysis to better understand this awesome movie decade!

You have been supplied with the dataset netflix_data.csv, along with the following table detailing the column names and descriptions. Feel free to experiment further after submitting!

The data

netflix_data.csv

ColumnDescription
show_idThe ID of the show
typeType of show
titleTitle of the show
directorDirector of the show
castCast of the show
countryCountry of origin
date_addedDate added to Netflix
release_yearYear of Netflix release
durationDuration of the show in minutes
descriptionDescription of the show
genreShow genre
# Importing pandas and matplotlib
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

# Read in the Netflix CSV as a DataFrame
netflix_df = pd.read_csv("netflix_data.csv")
#Creating a subset for the type "Movie"
movie_subset = netflix_df[netflix_df["type"] == "Movie"]
movie_subset.duplicated().count()
# Show the movies cast in the year 1990
import numpy as np
subset = np.logical_and(movie_subset["release_year"] >= 1990, movie_subset["release_year"] <= 1999)
movies_1990s = movie_subset[subset]
movies_1990s
# visualizing the distribution of movies
plt.hist(movies_1990s["duration"], bins=20, color="red", edgecolor="blue")
plt.xlabel("Duration of movies", fontsize=13)
plt.ylabel("Number of movies", fontsize=14)
plt.title("The Distribution of Movie Duration in the 1990s", fontsize=13)
plt.show()
#From the distribution, it can be deduced that the most duration is 100
duration = 100
#Subsetting action movies
action_movie_90s = movies_1990s[movies_1990s["genre"] == "Action"]
print(action_movie_90s)

Hidden output
short_movie_count = 0
for lab, row in action_movie_90s.iterrows():
    if row["duration"] < 90:
        short_movie_count= short_movie_count + 1
    else:
        short_movie_count = short_movie_count
print(short_movie_count)
short_movie_count = 7