Most Profitable Hollywood Stories

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2	Welcome to the Hollywood Stories dataset
3	lovingly compiled by Information Is Beautiful
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5	Herein, you'll find a list of every Hollywood film released over the last 7 years
6	and data on their
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8	: budget	Wikipedia, variety and other media sources
9	: opening weekends	the-numbers, boxofficemojo.com
10	: various grosses (domestic, foreign, opening weekends)	the-numbers, boxofficemojo.com
11	: story type (of the 22 different types of story)	hand-curated
12	: genre	imdb
13	: average meta score of critical reviews	Rotten Tomatoes
14	: average audience socre	Rotten Tomatoes
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16	a mix of hand-compiled, scraped and hand-curated data perfect for visualization
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18	so you can do cool things like
19	: scope the biggest grossing films of a year
20	: but then see their true profitability (i.e. how much of their budget they recovered)
21	: and how many cinema / theatres they opened at
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23	To edit the document and play with the figures, make a copy (File menu > make a copy) and then use the sorting feature for each column to shift the data
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26	enjoy!
27	David McCandless
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30	thanks to all these dogged researchers who hand-tilled this data
31	Miriam Quick, Marley Whiteside, Dan Hampson, Pearl Doughty-White, Matt Hanock, Alexia Wdoswki
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34	some notes about the data
35	regarding storytype, obviously there's a subjective element to guessing the story-types. Some films have multiple plot-lines so one size does not always fit all.	As ever, If you strongly disagree, please email to offer us a correction: informationisbeautiful@gmail.com
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37	last updated Feb 2014
38	similarly figures from 2007-08 may be slightly inaccurate as those films may have accrued more gross in the intervening years	We have checked where we've been able
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