MovieAnalysisProject

##Flatiron Phase One project ##Motivation for this project: We are analyzing data to solve the business problem of Microsoft in regards to creating a studio and giving actionable insights to these findings.

The Problem

How should Microsoft enter the original content movie market?

Questions for consideration:

1. What genre of movie are the best bets?
2. Who are some good directors to hire?

• based on ROI
• based on cost

3. Who are the major studios with the best returns that can potentially partner up with Microsoft.

• potentially entering into the Indian movie market

FILES IN THIS REPOSITORY

The following files are located in this repository:

• README.md
• Filmsforall.ipynb - A Jupiter Notebook representing the technical analysis for the project.
• zippedData - A zipped collection of data used in this project.
• Project_slides - visual presentation of the project analysis.

Methodology

1. Get a feel for all provided datasets.
2. Select datasets to analyze.
3. Perform data cleaning on the selected datasets.
4. Merge all selected datasets into one.
5. Analyze the merged dataset to extract 3 actionable insights:
   • Make Horror films released in July.
   • Hire top Directors based on their return on investment.
   • Partner with studios who made good return on their investment.
6. Generate graphical representation of the insights.
7. Create a presentation to translate the analysis into insights to be presented to the executives.

Contributors

Michael Ajayi
Ely Lin
Teigen Olson
Louis Casanave