Dataset Overview: Bollywood Movies (Budget, Box Office & YouTube Data)
The analysis uses a Bollywood movie dataset with both nominal (release date, season, genre) and ratio scale variables (budget, box office collection, YouTube views, likes, dislikes). The ratio-scale columns are the focus for numerical statistics.
Measures of Central Tendency
Calculated for ratio-scale variables (budget, box office, YouTube metrics).
Mean (Average)
- Function:
AVERAGE(range) - Results:
- Budget: 29.44 crores
- Box Office Collection: 55.66 crores
For a foundational review of these functions, see our guide on Mastering Descriptive Statistics in Excel: A Step-by-Step Guide.
Median
- Function:
MEDIAN(range) - Key insights:
- Budget median: 21 crores (50% of movies have budget ≤ 21 crores)
- Box Office median: 28 crores (50% of movies collect ≤ 28 crores)
Mode
- Function:
MODE(range) - Observations:
- Budget mode: 10 crores (most common budget)
- Box Office mode: 40 crores
- For YouTube Likes/Dislikes: mode is
#N/A(each value appears only once) or value = 1 (if duplicates exist)
- Nominal data: Mode can also find the most frequent season or genre (requires dummy coding first)
Measures of Variation
Range
- Formula: Max − Min
- Functions:
MAX(range)orQUARTILE(range,4)for max;MIN(range)orQUARTILE(range,0)for min - Examples:
- Budget range: 148 (max 150, min 2)
- Box Office range: 734.99
Variance & Standard Deviation
- Population Variance (
VAR.P): 792.08 (budget) - Sample Variance (
VAR.S): 797.38 (budget), slightly higher to correct bias (divides by n−1 instead of n) - Population Std Dev (
STDEV.P): 28.14 (budget) - Sample Std Dev (
STDEV.S): Slightly larger than population version
Learn more about these calculations in our comprehensive tutorial on How to Calculate Mean, Standard Deviation, and Create Charts in Excel.
Percentiles & Quartiles
- Percentile function:
PERCENTILE(array, k)where k is 0.1 for 10th, 0.9 for 90th, etc. - Quartile function:
QUARTILE(array, quart)where quart = 1 (25%), 2 (50% = median), 3 (75%) - Budget insights:
- 10th percentile: 5 crores
- 90th percentile: 62 crores
- Q1 (25%): 11 crores
- Q2 (median, 50%): 21 crores
- Q3 (75%): 35 crores
- Box Office insights:
- 10th percentile: 2 crores
- 90th percentile: 121 crores
- Q1: 8.78 crores
- Q2: 28 crores
- Q3: 57.45 crores
Measures of Shape
Skewness (Tail Length)
- Function:
SKEW(range) - Interpretation:
- Positive (>0): Right-skewed (long tail on the right)
- Negative (<0): Left-skewed
- Zero: Symmetric (normal-like)
- All variables in this dataset: Positive skewness (e.g., Budget skewness = 2.05) → distribution has a long right tail
Kurtosis (Tail Thickness / Peak Sharpness)
- Function:
KURT(range), returns excess kurtosis (compared to normal distribution, which has kurtosis = 3) - Interpretation:
- Positive excess (>0): Sharper peak, thicker tails than normal (leptokurtic)
- Negative excess (<0): Flatter peak, thinner tails (platykurtic)
- All variables: Excess kurtosis > 0 (e.g., Budget kurtosis = 4.6) → distributions are steeper and more peaked than a normal distribution
For a deeper statistical interpretation of shape measures like skewness and kurtosis with hypothesis testing, see our example Estimating Mean and Testing Normality of Family Movie Running Times.
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I am going to use a data set which is basically on Bollywood movies to explain how you can get descriptive statistics
such as measures of central tendency measures of variation and measures of shape let me first explain the data set
this data set is on Bollywood movies we have the release date of the movie the name of the movie and the release date
so we have four different seasons one is long weekend then we have normal season then we have long weekend and we have
festive season so these are the four different seasons during which the movies gets released then we have the
genre of movies such as romance Thriller comedy action drama and so on we have the budget of the movie this is in
crores of rupees and we have the box office collection again in crores of rupees we have YouTube views for that
movie YouTube likes and YouTube dislikes these are basically the number number of counts of views likes and dislikes now
if you look at this data set you have a combination of nominal scale as well as ratio scale for example release date and
Joiner they're all nominal scale and budget box office collection YouTube views YouTube likes and YouTube dislikes
or basically ratio skills or numerical values now I am going to start with the measures of central tendency if you look
at measures of central tendency there are three measures the first one is mean then we have median then the third is
mode so let us see how we can actually calculate mean median and mode remember most of these measures are valid only
for ratio scale for example average or mean we can calculate only for the ratio scale that means for Budget box office
collection YouTube likes YouTube dislikes and so on so let me first calculate the mean value for for this
variables mean in case of ratio scale is calculated using an Excel function
called average so all we have to do is enter average and here the data is from colon
F2 till F 150 so f 2 till F 150 so that is the average so the average budget for a Bollywood movie is
29.44 crores now I can actually copy this function for remaining columns so I can just drag it
I have the average for the remaining columns and the next column is basically the box office collection so the average
box office collection is 55.66 crores similarly you have the average YouTube use likes and dislikes
the average values now the next is I can calculate the median value for each of these values or features so the function
is median again we have to enter the array so this is from F to till f
150 ok and
when I copy this I get median values for all of them so the median budget is 21 crores that means 50 percent of the
movies have a budget of less than or equal to 21 crores and if you look at the box office collection the median
value is 28 crores that means 50 percent the box office collection is less than or equal to 28 crores and the remaining
50 percent and the remaining 50 percent it is more than 50 crores and similarly you have the median values for YouTube
views likes and dislikes I can go and also calculate more so here if you calculate more
again F two to f 150 I am going to drag that for the
remaining features so ah if you look at for budget the more distance that means the
highest frequency of budget is 10 there are many movies where the budget is 10 crores and similarly for box office
collection the mode is 40 that is the highest so the variable budget we are getting
more as 10 that means there are more number of movies for which the budget is done similarly
for box office collection the mode is 40 that means that has the highest frequency among the box office
Collections and it is interesting to note that for the YouTube likes when we entered the Excel function mode and we
chose that array we are getting n a that means there is no mode because each record there appears only once right
then you have YouTube likes and dislikes so here for both these variables the more values one that means one appears
more number of times in these two cases for both YouTube likes and dislikes now remember in descriptive statistics mode
can be used for nominal scale also I can use more to calculate during which season large number of movies are
released and what kind of genre of the movies is produced in high frequency by Bollywood I can use the mode function to
calculate we can use mode to calculate the highest number of frequencies in both season as
well as the genre of the movie but since it is in a language we have to create dummy code before we can go on use mode
the next measure is measure of variation the measure of variation again has many different measures the first one is
range which gives us the maximum and minimum value or minimum and maximum value you can do a trick to calculate
the minimum value in the data and maximum value in the data using quartile function we know that the quartiles
divide the data into 25 percent and so on 25 percent 50 percent 75 percent and the final 100 percent so what I can do
is if I want to calculate the minimum value I can obviously use the minimum function
in this I can say what is the minimum in the budget which is f two to F 150
so the minimum is two I can also use the quartile function which is quartile
the array is F2 to F 150 and when I write 0 it gives me the minimum value you can see that again the value is 2
right similarly I can now calculate the minimum value in each of these cases the remaining
variables such as box office collection YouTube views YouTube likes and YouTube dislikes and I can also now go and
calculate the maximum value so which is Max F2 colon F 150
so that gives me the maximum value here the maximum budget is hundred and fifty and similarly you have for other
variables as well the maximum box office collection is 735 I think this is for the movie PK
and I can also calculate maximum using the quartile function so I can enter quartile
F2 colon f one fifty comma 4 will give me the maximum value again it is 150 right so I can use this
function also to calculate the maximum value in the data so now if I want to calculate the range
the range is nothing but maximum value minus minimum value which is this
minus that so the range or
so the range for box office budget ok the range for box office budget is 148 the range for box office collection is
734.99 and so on so we have the range range is one of the measures of variation now we can go and calculate
other measures of variation such as the variance and the standard deviation so when we have variance we can actually
calculate variance for the population and also the variance for the sample so if I want to calculate the variance for
population we can calculate population variance using a function called
v a r dot V so here we will have F two colon F 150 so that gives us the variance for the
box office budget that gives the budget for the movies so the variance population variance is 792.
if you want to calculate sample variance then we use the function f a r dot s and again F2 colon F 150
so the sample variance is 797.384 remember whenever we calculate population variance the formula is
summation I equal to 1 to n x i minus mu whole Square divided by n whereas whenever we calculate variance of the
sample the formula is x i minus X bar whole Square divided by n minus 1. so since we are dividing with n minus 1 we
are getting slightly higher value here compared to the population variance which is 792 to account for ah bias in
estimation we can use the same function to calculate population variance and Sample
variance for the remaining variables such as the box office collection YouTube views YouTube likes and YouTube
dislikes we can go and calculate the standard deviation I can take simply the square
root of this but there is also a function in Excel so if you want to calculate population standard deviation
the population standard deviation is calculated in Excel using the function s d d e v dot p
and again we entered the entire array so your population standard deviation is 28.14
and if I want to calculate standard deviation from the sample or the sample standard
deviation then it is sdd EV dot s two colon f one fifty so now I can actually do the same for
other variables I can just copy this so now I have the population standard deviation and Sample standard deviation
for the box office collection YouTube likes YouTube views likes and dislikes so we have looked at the
the measures of variation range variance and standard deviation I am going to now discuss percentile percentile is the
value which gives us the value by which certain percentage of the data will lie for example I can use the function
percentile in Excel so when I enter percentile and we are looking at the array which is
budget and when I write 0.1 it basically gives the 10th percentile
value so when we enter we are getting the 10th percentile as 5 crores that means 10
percent of the movies budget is less than or equal to 5 crores similarly I can
do this for the remaining variables and if you look at here the box office collection 10 percent of the movies are
box office collection less than or equal to two crores similarly for the YouTube views likes as well as dislikes now I
can change this and say I want to calculate 90th percentile so it is percentile
F2 colon F 150 comma 0.9 so here what we are getting is 62 that means 62 percent
we are getting the 90th percentile as 62 that means 90 percent of the movies have budget Which is less than or equal to 62
crores similarly for box office collection the 90th percentile is 121 that means
for 90 percent of the movies the box office collection is less than or equal to 121 crores similarly for the
remaining variables now quartiles are nothing but a specific percentile for example quartile one is nothing but 25
percent quartile 2 is 50 percent which is same as median and quartile 3 is 75 percent so if you want to calculate
quartile 1 which is basically ah 25 percent I can either use percentile and say the value
is 0.25 or I can say quartile and the value is one so let us use both these functions so first I am using percentile
f 2 colon F 150 and 0.25 so here what we have is the value is 11 that means 25 percent of the movie
budget is less than or equal to 11 crore so here to calculate this value I use the percentile function in Excel but I
can also use quartile function so when I use quartile this is quartile again f 2 colon F 150 and I am going to say 1. so
here again you see that the value is 11 we have the value of the first quartile that is the value by which 25 percent of
the data Falls below that so I am going to copy this for the remaining so if you look at
the box office collection the first quartile is 8.78 that means 25 percent of the movies have box office collection
less than 8.78 crores we can go and calculate now the second
quartile remember this is same as your median so I can use
quartile F2 colon F 150 comma two so 21 which is same as median
that is 50 percent of the movies budget is less than or equal to 21 crores and here
for 50 percent of the movies the box office collection is less than or equal to 28 crores we can go and
calculate quartile three so I can use the quartile function so quartile 3 for box office budget is
35 crores that means for 75 percent of the movies the budget is less than or equal to 35
crores and 75 percent of the movies the box office collection is less than or equal to
57.45 crores so we looked at percentile and quartile now I'm going to discuss the measures of
shape which are nothing but skewness and kurtosis skewness looks at the length of the distribution or the tail of the
distribution whether it has a long tail or short tail whereas kurtosis looks at thickness of the tail whether it is the
thickness is low or the thickness is high so we can use ah two different functions Q which is used for
calculating skewness and cut k u r t which is used for calculating kurtosis so when you want to calculate skewness
the function is skew we can also calculate skewness for population or skewness so I am going to
just use Q f 2 colon F 150 so here it is 2.05 whenever it is positive that means it is a right skewed
distribution the tail is long at the right side and let us see the skewness for all other variables and here all of
them are ah positive that means all these variables are right skewed if you have a negative
value that means it's a left skewed if it is 0 then it is same as normal distribution
now let me calculate the kurtosis so the curtosis the function is k u r t this one actually gives us excess
kurtosis so basically it compares the kurtosis value with normal distribution and checks whether the ketosis is more
than normal distribution or less than normal distribution the curtosis for normal distribution is three so let us
calculate for all these variables the kotosis value F2 colon f one fifty so here you are getting 4.6 so that
means much steeper than normal distribution so it has a peak which is much longer than normal distribution in
fact all of them have a high P comparator normal distribution if it is less than 3 then it is lower than normal
distribution so it is a very flat curve if it is less than three if it is more than three then it is higher than the
normal distribution foreign [Music]
Use =AVERAGE(range) for the mean (average budget is 29.44 crores, average box office is 55.66 crores). Use =MEDIAN(range) for the median (budget median is 21 crores, box office median is 28 crores). Use =MODE(range) for the mode (most common budget is 10 crores, most common box office is 40 crores). For YouTube likes and dislikes, the mode often returns #N/A because most values are unique.
Calculate the range by subtracting the minimum from the maximum: =MAX(range)-MIN(range). For the budget data (min 2, max 150 crores), the range is 148. Use =STDEV.P(range) for population standard deviation (budget: 28.14) or =STDEV.S(range) for sample standard deviation (slightly higher at 28.24). Variance can be calculated with =VAR.P(range) for population (budget: 792.08) or =VAR.S(range) for sample (budget: 797.38).
Use the =PERCENTILE(array, k) function where k is 0.1 for the 10th percentile (budget: 5 crores) or 0.9 for the 90th percentile (62 crores). Use =QUARTILE(array, quart) where quart=1 for Q1 (25th percentile: 11 crores), quart=2 for the median (50th percentile: 21 crores), and quart=3 for Q3 (75th percentile: 35 crores). These values show that 75% of movies have budgets under 35 crores, and only 10% exceed 62 crores.
All ratio-scale variables have positive skewness (e.g., budget skewness = 2.05), indicating a right-skewed distribution with a long tail of high-budget movies. The excess kurtosis is also positive for all variables (e.g., budget kurtosis = 4.6), meaning the distributions are leptokurtic—they have sharper peaks and thicker tails than a normal distribution. This confirms that extreme values (very high budgets/collections) occur more frequently than in a standard bell curve.
Yes, the mode can identify the most frequent season or genre, but only after converting the nominal text data into numerical dummy codes (0 or 1 for each category). For example, if the dataset contains season labels like "Summer" or "Festive", you would create separate columns with 1s and 0s for each season. Then, =MODE(range) on that column will return 1 if that season is the most common, or 0 otherwise.
Population variance (=VAR.P(range)) assumes the data represents the entire population, so it divides the sum of squared deviations by n (number of observations). Sample variance (=VAR.S(range)) assumes the data is only a sample, so it divides by n-1 to correct for bias (making it slightly larger). In this dataset, the budget population variance is 792.08, while the sample variance is 797.38—about 0.67% higher. Always use sample functions when your dataset is a subset of a larger universe.
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