Question

Data from fifty of the top box office receipt generating movies are provided in the file. Quantitative variables for the movie's release year, inflation- and noninflations-adjusted box office receipts in the United States, budget and the world box office receipts are also included. Use the data visualization methods presented in Chapter 3 to explore these data and discover relationships between the variables. Include the following in your report:

3. Create a frequency distribution, percent frequency distribution, and histogram for the inflation-adjusted U.S. box office receipts. Use bin sizes of $100 million. Interpret the results. Do their appear to be any outliers?

4. Create a PivotTable for these data. Use the PivotTable to generate a crosstabulation for movie genre and rating. Determine which combinations of genre and rating are most represented in the top 50 movie data. Now filter the data to consider only movies after 1980. What combinations are most represented after 1980? What does this indicate about how the preferences of moviegoers have changed over time?

Title	Year Released	U.S. Box Office Receipts (Inflation Adjusted Millions $)	Rating	Genre	Budget (Non-Inflation Adjusted Millions $)	World Box Office Receipts (Non-Inflation Adjusted Millions $)	U.S. Box Office Receipts (Non-Inflation Adjusted Millions $)
Gone With the Wind	1939	$1,650	G	Drama	$3	$391	$199
Star Wars	1977	$1,426	PG	SciFi/Fantasy	$11	$798	$461
The Sound of Music	1965	$1,145	G	Musical	--	$163	$163
E.T.	1982	$1,132	PG	SciFi/Fantasy	--	$757	$435
Titanic	1997	$1,096	PG-13	Drama	$200	$2,185	$659
The Ten Commandments	1956	$1,053	G	Drama	$14	$80	$80
Jaws	1975	$1,029	PG	Action	$12	$471	$260
Doctor Zhivago	1965	$973	PG-13	Drama	$11	$112	$112
The Jungle Book	1967	$871	G	Animated	--	$206	$142
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	1937	$854	G	Animated	$1	$185	$185
Ben-Hur	1959	$844	G	Drama	$15	$70	$70
One Hundred and One Dalmatians	1961	$825	G	Animated	--	$215	$153
The Exorcist	1973	$809	R	Horror	$12	$358	$205
Avatar	2009	$804	PG-13	Action	$230	$2,778	$761
The Empire Strikes Back	1980	$772	PG	SciFi/Fantasy	$18	$534	$290
Return of the Jedi	1983	$741	PG	SciFi/Fantasy	$33	$573	$309
The Lion King	1994	$722	G	Animated	$45	$952	$423
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace	1999	$720	PG	SciFi/Fantasy	$110	$1,027	$475
The Sting	1973	$715	PG	Drama	$6	$160	$160
Mary Poppins	1964	$686	G	Musical	--	$102	$102
Raiders of the Lost Ark	1981	$683	PG	Action	$20	$384	$248
Jurassic Park	1993	$676	PG-13	Action	$63	$920	$357
The Graduate	1967	$671	PG	Drama	--	$104	$104
Fantasia	1940	$651	G	Animated	$2	$76	$76
Marvel's The Avengers	2012	$623	PG-13	SciFi/Fantasy	$220	$1,512	$623
The Godfather	1972	$623	R	Drama	$6	$135	$135
Forrest Gump	1994	$618	PG-13	Drama	$55	$680	$330
Close Encounters of the Third Kind	1977	$612	PG	Drama	--	$300	$128
The Dark Knight	2008	$589	PG-13	SciFi/Fantasy	$150	$1,002	$533
Sleeping Beauty	1959	$570	G	Animated	$6	$52	$52
Grease	1978	$562	PG	Comedy	$6	$380	$182
Shrek 2	2004	$557	PG	Animated	$75	$912	$437
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	1969	$553	PG	Western	--	$102	$102
Spider-Man	2002	$552	PG-13	SciFi/Fantasy	$139	$807	$404
Bambi	1942	$552	G	Animated	--	$268	$103
Independence Day	1996	$549	PG-13	SciFi/Fantasy	$75	$813	$306
Love Story	1970	$549	PG	Drama	--	$106	$106
Beverly Hills Cop	1984	$548	R	Comedy	--	$316	$235
Pinocchio	1940	$529	G	Animated	$3	$84	$84
Home Alone	1990	$528	PG	Comedy	--	$534	$286
Cleopatra	1963	$527	UR	Drama	$44	$58	$58
Airport	1970	$518	G	Drama	$10	$101	$101
American Graffiti	1973	$515	PG	Drama	$1	$115	$115
Ghostbusters	1984	$515	PG	SciFi/Fantasy	$30	$292	$239
The Robe	1953	$513	UR	Drama	$5	$36	$36
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	2006	$513	PG-13	Action	$225	$1,066	$423
Around the World in 80 Days	1956	$507	G	Action	$6	$42	$42
LOTR: The Return of the King	2003	$496	PG-13	SciFi/Fantasy	$94	$1,129	$377
Blazing Saddles	1974	$496	R	Comedy	--	$120	$120
Batman	1989	$494	PG-13	SciFi/Fantasy	--	$413	$251

Answer 1

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3.

The minimum value of inflation-adjusted U.S. box office receipts, given under the column “U.S. Box Office Receipts (Inflation Adjusted Millions $)” is 494, and the maximum value is 1,650.

While constructing the frequency distribution and the percent frequency distribution, for convenience, the lower boundary of the lowest class is taken to be 450, and the upper boundary of the highest class is 1,650.

Since each bin size is $100 million, the classes would be 450-550, 550-650, …, 1,550-1,650. To maintain parity, if a value is the same as that of a class boundary, it is counted in the class where it is the upper limit. For example, if a box office receipt value is $550, it should be counted in class 450-550, and not in the class 550-650.

Frequency:

Count the number of movies in each $100 million interval, to find the frequency of that class. It can be counted that 15 movies have inflation-adjusted U.S. box office receipts between $450 million and $550 million. So, the frequency of the first class, 450-550 is 15. Similarly, the frequencies of the other classes can be found.

Percent Frequency:

There are 50 movies in total, so that the total frequency is 50. Divide the frequency of a class by the total frequency, and multiply the obtained ratio by 100, to find the percent frequency of the class. The percent frequency of the first class is (15/50 * 100), that is, 30%. Similarly, the percent frequencies of the other classes can be found.

Histogram:

We have drawn the percent frequency histogram, by plotting the percent frequencies (along the vertical axis) against the corresponding classes (along the horizontal axis). Each class percent frequency is represented by a bin having the width the same as the width of the class, and the height representing the percent frequency.

The following are the frequency and percent frequency distributions, along with the percent frequency histogram:

4.

In order to create pivot table, open the dataset in an Excel sheet, and select the entire dataset.

Go to Insert > Tables > Pivot Table.

Click OK in the dialog box that opens. A new sheet opens with the pivot table.

From Choose fields to add to report, drag Rating to Column Labels, Genre to Row Labels, Title to Values, under the section Drag fields between areas below:.

Select the drop-down sign corresponding to Title under Values, and choose Value Field Settings. Choose Count under Summarize value field by > OK.

The pivot table is obtained. We have edited the title Column Labels as Rating and the title Row Labels as Genre.

The pivot table is given below:

It can be observed that the maximum frequency in a cell is 8 (excluding the Grand Total cells, of course), corresponding to the Animated genre and the G Rating. Hence, G-rated Animated movies are the most represented in the top 50 movie data.

In order to filter the data to consider only the movies after 1980, from Choose fields to add to report, drag Year Released to Report Filter, under the section Drag fields between areas below:.

Select the drop-down sign corresponding to Year Released in the table, and choose Select Multiple Items. Choose only those years in the list, that start from 1981 and end in 2012. Click OK.

The obtained filtered pivot table is given below:

It can be observed that the maximum frequency in a cell in the filtered table is 6, corresponding to the SciFi/Fantasy genre and the PG-13 Rating. Hence, PG-13 rated SciFi/Fantasy movies are the most represented after 1980.

It appears that the preferences of moviegoers have shifted towards the SciFi/Fantasy genre in the recent years, specifically, in the last 32 years of the data.