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I made a website that rates the latest movies by analyzing social media

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Re: I made a website that rates the latest movies by analyzing social media

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mikeleeorg wrote: post #7

Nice! I just had a conversation with a friend about what new game he should play. Perhaps a nice extension of your platform is to get social media buzz ratings for games.

I want to do this if I am successful in marketing this website and people enjoy using it. Once I've perfected the scoring algorithm, classification, website design/UI and data sourcing (to incorporate reviews & forums), I plan on expanding to video games, tv shows and books.

Eventually it would be cool to do stuff like material goods (cellphones, appliances, etc...) so that consumers have another users to leverage when trying to find something to buy. Imagine being able to compare cars based on what people are writing across the web about the cars durability, performance, comfort when shopping for a car!

But right now I'm working on the website by myself and have a ton of work to do.

Re: I made a website that rates the latest movies by analyzing social media

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mfonda wrote: post #16

This looks like a great way to find movies. I was a bit confused at first about what the different colors (blue, red, grey) meant. After looking at the markup I came to the conclusion that blue meant positive and red meant negative. A bit later I found the explanation hidden behind the "Click to Learn More". There's no visual indication that this is a link, so I found it easy to miss. Perhaps it would be good to move…

Thanks this is great feedback.

Re: I made a website that rates the latest movies by analyzing social media

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Post by eranation »

Looks great, and useful, wanted to share, but you are missing open graph tags so facebook share just includes your link, please add meta tags / og tags (like description, title, image etc) to make easy sharing, this is pretty important...

see here for more details: http://ogp.me

Re: I made a website that rates the latest movies by analyzing social media

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Post by carlsednaoui »

buzzscale wrote: post #4
carlsednaoui wrote: post #3

Nice! I've been wanting to do something similar for a while but have been busy working on other side projects, glad you got to ship it! Out of curiosity, what apis are you using?

I use the rotten tomatoes API to get the movies and automatically create them as blogs in Wordpress using the wordpress xmlrpc interface. I use the Clarabridge API for classification and sentiment. Facebook's graph search API & Twitter API for the data. And duct tape to hold it all together :).

hahaha love it! Just like Macgyver :)

Re: I made a website that rates the latest movies by analyzing social media

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Post by engtech »

It seems to me that what you are measuring is how well marketed a movie is, not how good it is on any scale. Interesting point, compare your results against box office results.

Also: the hottest and sexiest movies #6: Ice Age??? :)

http://www.buzzscale.com/?page_id=4134#62458

Re: I made a website that rates the latest movies by analyzing social media

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Post by adventured »

Look good, but it needs to assess sentiment rather than just buzz (and it needs to grade buzz a lot better).

Gangster Squad for example has a 80 buzz score, but it got between terrible and mediocre reviews. Django has an 85 buzz score, but got almost universally great reviews. Django will make roughly 4 to 5 times as much money as Gangster Squad, and was just about blanket everywhere in the media 24/7, so it's very unlikely Ganster has anywhere close to as much actual buzz as Django.

Re: I made a website that rates the latest movies by analyzing social media

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Post by examancer »

I am not sure if this site provides an accurate aggregate view of public opinion on movies, but if it does then I have no desire to know what the public likes. I also don't know how this is better than other "what does everyone think?" ratings available on IMDB or rotten tomatoes.

The real beauty of all the social data now available is that a service like this could theoretically provide ratings based on the sentiment of people who's opinions I follow or who are have similar tastes to me. I don't care how much the average person loves Pitch Perfect, its just not something want on my list of potential movies. If I were matched through my social iterations to people who's ratings are relevant that would likely be obvious.

I love seeing new software in this space and I hope you develop it further, but you're going to need to dive much deeper into the social data available if you want to really make a disruption.

Re: I made a website that rates the latest movies by analyzing social media

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Post by weareconvo »

buzzscale wrote: post #19
weareconvo wrote: post #13

Just FYI, you're violating Twitter's API display guidelines. https://dev.twitter.com/docs/embedded-tweets

Thanks, Didn't know about this. I'll fix it.

Just thought you should know. If you haven't heard from anyone, it probably isn't a big deal.
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