Any idea where this guy got the data? He mentions rating distributions.
I though the majority of IMDB data was not downloadable?
The Story Behind the Worst Movie on IMDb
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#32Luckily, IMDB also shows Metacritic ratings next to their own user ratings. I take those into account before I make my decisions on what I'm going to rent/stream. Far too often do you find a movie (usually a somewhat recent release) that's just flat out terrible despite having a > 7 score on IMDB (and usually a Metacritic score in the 30's or 40's)
Do you have any interesting examples that you've found?
Anchorman 2 and The Internship were both > 7 near their DVD release but have settled back down into the 6's and have low Metacritic scores.
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#33He was sentenced to life in prison for his crimes by the Bangladeshi International Crimes Tribunal. But many Bangladeshis found that sentence too lenient, and more than 100,000 of them gathered in Shahbag Square in the capital city of Dhaka to challenge it. It's interesting that so many people gathered solely to express "we want this guy dead, not imprisoned." I wonder if there's more context?
That's really, really sad if it's true.
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#34Any crowdsourced data can be easily manipulated by a well organized or large enough group. See the results of the naming poll for the Megyeri Bridge in Budapest in 2006. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megyeri_Bridge#Naming_poll
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#35Maybe a solution could be weighting the vote according to the user history: a user leaving a single vote on a single movie shouldn't be as influential as an user that voted on a wider range of movies over time
IMDB only counts 'regular voters' in the top 250 movie list.
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#36Any idea where this guy got the data? He mentions rating distributions. I though the majority of IMDB data was not downloadable?
If it's on the Internet it's downloadable. I'm not sure what the IMDB TOS says about it, but I remember watching a video about sqlite that used IMDB as its example.
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#37Luckily, IMDB also shows Metacritic ratings next to their own user ratings. I take those into account before I make my decisions on what I'm going to rent/stream. Far too often do you find a movie (usually a somewhat recent release) that's just flat out terrible despite having a > 7 score on IMDB (and usually a Metacritic score in the 30's or 40's)
Do you have any interesting examples that you've found?
Excuse the plugging of my own wares, but by coincidence I did some analysis the other day of the disparity between User/Critic ratings of movies on RottenTomatoes: http://benjaminlmoore.wordpress.com/2014/05/05/what-are-the-...
Example: "Spy Kids" got a 93% fresh rating from critics, but 45% from audience ratings.
Code attached should you want to investigate for yourself.
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#38He was sentenced to life in prison for his crimes by the Bangladeshi International Crimes Tribunal. But many Bangladeshis found that sentence too lenient, and more than 100,000 of them gathered in Shahbag Square in the capital city of Dhaka to challenge it. It's interesting that so many people gathered solely to express "we want this guy dead, not imprisoned." I wonder if there's more context?
"...a Bangladeshi nationalist movement called Gonojagoron Moncho, or National Awakening Stage. Gonojagoron Moncho was founded in response to the trial of Abdul Quader Molla, a Bangladeshi Islamist leader who last year was found guilty of killing hundreds of civilians as part of a paramilitary wing during Bangladesh’s liberation war from Pakistan in 1971. "
That, uh, seems like plenty of context to me? Throughout history, seriously bad dude plus nationalistic fervor equals lynch mob pretty darn often. The seriously bad dude part is usually even optional!
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#39I found it odd that the article makes note that 36,000 ratings come from outside the U.S. Maybe I am missing something but wouldn't it be expected that many of a Bollywood movie's ratings would come from outside the U.S.?
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#40It's not that the rating is inaccurate... it's that a huge population of people that don't usually rate movies on IMDB has suddenly entered the rating pool. Maybe the solution is to have country-specific ratings, so that my ratings are averaged with the ratings of my peers, rather than the ratings of people in entirely different cultures.
While there's certainly a culture common to my compatriots and me, it's hardly a great indicator viz-a-viz preferences in films. At least in that area, I probably have more in common with many people here than with the average citizen of my country.
Besides, for us in small countries, we would probably have almost no ratings in any film besides blockbusters.