Exercise

Introducing the movie database

Throughout this chapter, you'll be working with the TMDb (The Movie Database). This contains metadata on around 5000 movies.

The dataset is loaded and available to you as movies.

Your main objective is to predict movie revenue - more specifically, log-revenue, which is the normalized version of the revenue feature.

Use the .describe() method to explore this feature. You can also inspect the histogram to the right. What can you conclude?

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The average log-revenue is around 16.77.

There are many zero values.

There many extreme values.