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This dataset has one row per episode and includes ratings plus original airdates in the UK (by series) and US (by season). This dataset is made by joining the ratings_raw and seasons_raw datasets by both series and episode.

Usage

ratings

Format

A data frame with 94 rows representing individual episodes and 11 variables:

series

An integer denoting UK series (1-10).

episode

An integer denoting episode number within a series.

episode_count

An integer denoting continuous episode number across series (1-94)

uk_airdate

A date denoting original airdate of episode in the UK.

viewers_7day

The number of viewers in millions within a 7-day window from airdate.

viewers_28day

The number of viewers in millions within a 28-day window from airdate.

network_rank

An integer denoting the episode's weekly ranking within network (note that the networks changed for series 8 and later).

channels_rank

An integer denoting the episode's weekly ranking across all channels.

bbc_iplayer_requests

Number of BBC iPlayer requests (note: not available for all series, and only for series that aired on the BBC).

us_season

An integer denoting US season (1-5).

us_airdate

A date denoting original airdate of episode in the US, according to pbs.org.

Examples

if (require('tibble')) {
  ratings
 }
#> # A tibble: 94 × 11
#>    series episode uk_airdate viewers_7…¹ viewe…² netwo…³ chann…⁴ bbc_i…⁵ episo…⁶
#>     <dbl>   <dbl> <date>           <dbl>   <dbl>   <dbl>   <dbl>   <dbl>   <dbl>
#>  1      1       1 2010-08-17        2.24       7      NA      NA      NA       1
#>  2      1       2 2010-08-24        3          3      NA      NA      NA       2
#>  3      1       3 2010-08-31        3          2      NA      NA      NA       3
#>  4      1       4 2010-09-07        2.6        4      NA      NA      NA       4
#>  5      1       5 2010-09-14        3.03       1      NA      NA      NA       5
#>  6      1       6 2010-09-21        2.75       1      NA      NA      NA       6
#>  7      2       1 2011-08-16        3.1        2      NA      NA      NA       7
#>  8      2       2 2011-08-23        3.53       2      NA      NA      NA       8
#>  9      2       3 2011-08-30        3.82       1      NA      NA      NA       9
#> 10      2       4 2011-09-06        3.6        1      NA      NA      NA      10
#> # … with 84 more rows, 2 more variables: us_season <dbl>, us_airdate <chr>, and
#> #   abbreviated variable names ¹​viewers_7day, ²​viewers_28day, ³​network_rank,
#> #   ⁴​channels_rank, ⁵​bbc_iplayer_requests, ⁶​episode_count
head(ratings)
#> # A tibble: 6 × 11
#>   series episode uk_airdate viewers_7day viewe…¹ netwo…² chann…³ bbc_i…⁴ episo…⁵
#>    <dbl>   <dbl> <date>            <dbl>   <dbl>   <dbl>   <dbl>   <dbl>   <dbl>
#> 1      1       1 2010-08-17         2.24       7      NA      NA      NA       1
#> 2      1       2 2010-08-24         3          3      NA      NA      NA       2
#> 3      1       3 2010-08-31         3          2      NA      NA      NA       3
#> 4      1       4 2010-09-07         2.6        4      NA      NA      NA       4
#> 5      1       5 2010-09-14         3.03       1      NA      NA      NA       5
#> 6      1       6 2010-09-21         2.75       1      NA      NA      NA       6
#> # … with 2 more variables: us_season <dbl>, us_airdate <chr>, and abbreviated
#> #   variable names ¹​viewers_28day, ²​network_rank, ³​channels_rank,
#> #   ⁴​bbc_iplayer_requests, ⁵​episode_count