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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

# Read in the Netflix CSV as a DataFrame
netflix_df = pd.read_csv("netflix_data.csv")
# Start coding here! Use as many cells as you like
# Filtering for "Movie" type
netflix_movies = netflix_df[netflix_df["type"] == "Movie"]

# Filtering for Movies in the 1900s only
netflix_movies_1990s = netflix_movies[(netflix_movies["release_year"] >= 1990) & (netflix_movies["release_year"] <= 1999)]

# Check subset
print(netflix_movies_1990s)
# Creating histogram of the duration column to see the distribution and check which is the highest
plt.hist(netflix_movies_1990s["duration"])
plt.title('Distribution of Movie Durations in the 1990s')
plt.xlabel('Duration in minutes')
plt.ylabel('Number of Movies')
plt.show

# Most frequent movie duration in the 1990s
duration = 100

print("Most frequent movie duration in the 1990s: " + str(duration) + " minutes")
# Filtering the data for "Action" movies
action_movies_1990s = netflix_movies_1990s[netflix_movies_1990s["genre"] == "Action"]

# Count the number of short action movies by using a for loop and an if-else statement

short_movie_count = 0

for label, row in action_movies_1990s.iterrows() :
    if row["duration"] < 90 :
        short_movie_count = short_movie_count + 1
    else :
        short_movie_count = short_movie_count

print("Number of short action movies released in 1990s: " + str(short_movie_count))