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Re: Submetrics – Search for your favorite show

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Post by codereflection »

frazras wrote: post #7
alexholehouse wrote: post #2

I don't understand; 1) What's the 'top words' which appears when you search for a site? I just get a bunch of profanities (for basically any show, even those which are PG-13). Is this meant to be the top words found in the show's subtitles (it's not) or the most searched for words (in which case why am I'm being shown that). Further searches seem to show some work (e.g. Homeland, or Game of thrones) 2) Expanding the…

Right! I saw profanity in the big bang theory too but unless it was bleeped out I don't believe that has ever happened

Same with Adventure Time

Re: Submetrics – Search for your favorite show

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Post by vkjv »

Doing some ad-hoc searches, it appears that recommendations tend to favor shows with the same writer rather than shows in the same genre. I'm guessing this is because writers tend to have a similar writing style across genres.

For example, search for a Joss Whedon show and get Joss Whedon shows recommended.

Re: Submetrics – Search for your favorite show

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Post by fla »

vojant wrote: post #3

For example: Breaking bad ( http://www.submetrics.org/#/show/1069 ) Top topics: Party, Gossip, Show... I don't understand how it can help me pick similar shows Edit: I played a little more for some TV shows it gives better results. For sure it is interesting but require a lot more work to be actually useful as TV Shows recommendation tool.

96.58% Similar to Veronica Mars. Not sure if top words is a good metric here.

Re: Submetrics – Search for your favorite show

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Post by spgenot »

alexholehouse wrote: post #2

I don't understand; 1) What's the 'top words' which appears when you search for a site? I just get a bunch of profanities (for basically any show, even those which are PG-13). Is this meant to be the top words found in the show's subtitles (it's not) or the most searched for words (in which case why am I'm being shown that). Further searches seem to show some work (e.g. Homeland, or Game of thrones) 2) Expanding the…

First of all this is all still in very early beta work ! I'm not sure how it got to HN but here it is so all your feedback is great. I'll try to answer some of your questions the best I can:

1) The top words are those that characterize the show the best. This is not perfect science, and is an output of the LDA algorithm, but it gives already a good indication. Some words indeed shouldn't be there. Some possible explanation: subtitle mistake or a bug...

2) The words that appear more then once are again a glitch, and should be fixed. Again, work in progress...

3) The top topics are found using a topic modelling algorithm. It splits a corpus of documents into a number of topics, and every documents contains a certain proportion of each topic (20% Police, 80% Terrorism for example). The topics are bag-of-words, and so we manually give them names to what we think fits best.

4) Again beta...

I hope the 'about' is clear enough, if you have any questions feel free to ask !

Re: Submetrics – Search for your favorite show

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Post by spgenot »

dikaiosune wrote: post #9
domfletcher wrote: post #6

Yeah, its a nice idea but doesn't seem to work at the moment, give it a few months and someone may well implement it properly. As an aside does anyone recognise what they've used for the data vis on http://www.submetrics.org/#/about ?

It looks quite similar to a graph visualization method I once used in Gephi [1]. [1] https://gephi.github.io/images/screenshots/preview4.png

Yep, it's Gephi !
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