The Office! What started as a British mockumentary series about office culture in 2001 has since spawned ten other variants across the world,including a Hindi version (2019-), and even a French Canadian variant (2006-2007). Of all these iterations (including the original), the American series has been the longest-running, spanning 201 episodes over nine seasons.
In this notebook, I will take a look at a dataset of The Office episodes, and try to understand how the popularity and quality of the series varied over time. To do so, I will use the following dataset: datasets/office_episodes.csv, which was downloaded from Kaggle here.
This dataset contains information on a variety of characteristics of each episode. In detail, these are:
datasets/office_episodes.csv
- episode_number: Canonical episode number.
- season: Season in which the episode appeared.
- episode_title: Title of the episode.
- description: Description of the episode.
- ratings: Average IMDB rating.
- votes: Number of votes.
- viewership_mil: Number of US viewers in millions.
- duration: Duration in number of minutes.
- release_date: Airdate.
- guest_stars: Guest stars in the episode (if any).
- director: Director of the episode.
- writers: Writers of the episode.
- has_guests: True/False column for whether the episode contained guest stars.
- scaled_ratings: The ratings scaled from 0 (worst-reviewed) to 1 (best-reviewed).