The Office! What started as a British mockumentary series about office culture in 2001 has since spawned ten other variants across the world, including an Israeli version (2010-13), 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, we 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, we 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).