Movie Data Analysis

A reproducible, beginner-friendly repo for exploring movie metadata and doing simple analyses/visualizations.

Contents

• src/ — Python scripts for cleaning, exploring and visualizing data
• data/ — place your dataset here (do not commit large datasets)
• outputs/ — saved charts and summary CSVs

Quickstart

1. Create a virtual environment and install requirements:

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate # mac/linux
venv\Scripts\activate # windows
pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Place your movie CSV into data/ (e.g. data/movies_metadata.csv).
3. Run data processing and exploratory analysis:

python src/data_processing.py --input data/movies_metadata.csv --output outputs/summary.csv
python src/exploratory_analysis.py --input outputs/summary.csv --outdir outputs/figures