Howland_retirement

Solving the mystery put forth by my AP Macroeconomics teacher, Mr. Howland

Given Information

Retirement Poster Mystery: Why does he call the poster by his desk his "retirement poster".

Clue 1: The name of the piece.

Clue 2: He got the idea from watching a Humphrey Bogart movie that is not Casablanca.

Prize: Avengers Poster or Plaque with your name on it. (We want the plaque, obviously.)

Repository Contents

• data: Contains data tables relating to the mystery
  • howland_ratings.csv: Formatted data of each movie rating posted to Mr.Howland's website
  • popular_ratings.csv: Formatted data of each movie that Mr. Howland has rated, sourced from The Movie Database's API. Includes the "popular" rating (aka the rating given to the movie by TMDB users) and the movie's ID in the database for future reference
  • compared_ratings.csv: Combined data of each movie that Mr. Howland has rated w/ the popular rating from TMDB included. Also features genres and official title (all sourced from TMDB)
  • hb_movies.csv: Formatted data of each movie that Humphrey Bogart has appeared in. Scraped from Wikipedia using WikiTable2CSV. Scraped data needs some manual editing to make it RBQL/SQL-friendly
  • compared_ratings.svg: Graph comparing Mr. Howland's ratings to the popular ratings from TMDB
  • data_analysis.md: Analysis & comparisons of the data tables
• poster: Contains high-rez image of the poster, a short written analysis, and any other poster-related files
  • poster.jpg: Image of the poster
  • poster_analysis.md: Written analysis of the poster
• scripts: Contains scripts used for repository setup and data gathering/analysis
  • install_reqs.py: Simple helper script for installing required packages and setting up git hooks. Standard practice for my repos
  • get_ratings.py: Python script to scrape and organize movie ratings from Mr.Howland's website
  • tmdb_ratings.py: Python script to fetch movie ratings, official name, and other useful tidbits from The Movie Database API
  • compare_ratings.py: Python script to combine Mr. Howland's ratings with the popular ratings from TMDB, as well as source additional information like movie genre and official title
  • graph_gen.py: Python script to generate a graph comparing Mr. Howland's ratings to the popular ratings from TMDB. Uses Matplotlib for graph generation