I feel like I've read the comment I'm about to make somewhere else about something, so this isn't necessarily my original idea: the buzz is from social media currently, yes? And it works as a great indicator after the movie comes out, as people are tweeting/facebooking/etc. about it. But what happens in a little while when the "buzz" dies down? Or is the idea to just give you a quick glimpse of currently releasing movies, and not to be a ranking database of all movies ever made.
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
#32I 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 sentimen…
I had an idea about this recently, and would love for someone to further develop it. I already implemented a proof of concept, but won't have time to build it to a complete product any time soon.
The (simplified) idea for recommending movies was:
1. Crawl a torrent site (say, the pirate bay) for as many torrents you can find. Extract the title, description, magnet link and category for each torrent. 2. Use the DHT network to find out which IP addresses are downloading what torrents 3. Use these (torrent, ip) tuples to build a recommendation based on "People who download X also download Y"
This way you can try to find movies that are liked (or actually, downloaded) by people with similar taste to you. The quality of this recommender is quite impressive in my opinion.
Email me at arno at vanlumig dot com if you want to see the proof of concept, I won't post a link here because the performance is quite bad and I'm sure the server won't be able to handle any significant load.
I will make the data (torrent metadata and data about who downloaded what) available as soon as I've anonymised the IP addresses, also mail me if you're interested in that data.
Re: I made a website that rates the latest movies by analyzing social media
#33You should also display the avg. buzz per week for lets say the first 5 weeks. You could also display how many weeks movies held a certain buzz level (i.e. 5000 mentions). It seems the way it is currently movies that have been out longer are going to have a higher buzz than the brand spanking new releases.
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#34Look 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 u…
Exactly. I'd love to see this with sentiment analysis (ideally done by humans instead of support vector machines)
The data from people using Senti to rank movie sentiment has been interesting: https://senti.crowdflower.com
Re: I made a website that rates the latest movies by analyzing social media
#35Look 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 u…
I'd train a linear regression on the text features to approximate the box office returns. That would be a way to build a rating system - the value of the function is the rating itself.
Re: I made a website that rates the latest movies by analyzing social media
#36Look 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 u…
You're right, but your comment made me think of something Andy Warhol once said:
"Don't pay any attention to what they write about you, just measure it in inches"
Re: I made a website that rates the latest movies by analyzing social media
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I'm curious, what Twitter display guidelines is the author breaking?
When you display a tweet embedded in your page, you have to display it exactly as they do, which takes up a truly ridiculous amount of space and is intentionally prohibitive. And as a sidenote, Twitter would very much prefer if the API would just disappear, as they get non-linear benefits from users going to twitter.com instead of accessing its services through a third party. Internally, it is spoken of as a liabilit…
Internally, it is spoken of as a liability
I doubt that their API is spoken of as a liability internally because, if it was spoken of as a liability then Twitter.com itself is a liability. Why? Twitter.com itself is powered by their API[1]
[1] http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/09/tech-behind-new-twitt...
Re: I made a website that rates the latest movies by analyzing social media
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
When you display a tweet embedded in your page, you have to display it exactly as they do, which takes up a truly ridiculous amount of space and is intentionally prohibitive. And as a sidenote, Twitter would very much prefer if the API would just disappear, as they get non-linear benefits from users going to twitter.com instead of accessing its services through a third party. Internally, it is spoken of as a liabilit…
Internally, it is spoken of as a liability I doubt that their API is spoken of as a liability internally because, if it was spoken of as a liability then Twitter.com itself is a liability. Why? Twitter.com itself is powered by their API[1] [1] http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/09/tech-behind-new-twitt...
It is spoken of internally as a liability, and the executives want nothing more than to get rid of it for many reasons, not the least of which being their current investors care only about user numbers, and don't seem to count third-party users.
Trust me on this.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Internally, it is spoken of as a liability I doubt that their API is spoken of as a liability internally because, if it was spoken of as a liability then Twitter.com itself is a liability. Why? Twitter.com itself is powered by their API[1] [1] http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/09/tech-behind-new-twitt...
It is spoken of internally as a liability, and the executives want nothing more than to get rid of it for many reasons, not the least of which being their current investors care only about user numbers, and don't seem to count third-party users. Trust me on this.
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