Impact of sports in movies : Simple Data visualization Analysis – Basketball, Football, Hockey, Lacrosse, Miscellaneous sports

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This http://www.the-numbers.com/keywords/ website contains lot of statistics related to movies and one important piece of juicy data is that they have categorized the movie listings by keywords. Using this list we try to analyze the popularity of sports in movies.

1. How has the featuring of sports as backdrop or prominent theme increased over the years?

We simply count the number of movies and show it against the year.

The categories that we selected are as below

[“Basketball”,”Football”,”Gambling”,”Hockey”,”Lacrosse”,”Miscellaneous Sports”]

 

Increase of sports in movies

Now we can check the box office impact of sports in the movies

sport movies world box office

That is a big spike in 1999 so let us see what sport categories contributed to all these numbers

lacrosse featured in movies 1999

Interestingly, Lacrosse was featured for the first time in movies and the year was 1999 and movie “American Pie”

lacrosse movie grossings

 

Miscellaneous Sports Movies

movies miscellaneous sports

 

Let us take a big picture view of sports impact on movies [excluding gambling]

impact of sports in movies

Click here for the interactive visualization

 

List of movies featuring Basketball

movies featuring basketball

Movies featuring Football

movies featuring football

Movies featuring Hockey

movies featuring hockey

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