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

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

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Let me know what you think. I'd like to expand it to more data sources and also start analyzing other products such as tv shows, books, video games, phones, cars etc...

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

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Post by basseq »

Interesting idea; I'd be interested to see a full correlation between Buzzscale scores and other ratings sites (IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes). Based on a quick analysis of the top movies on the front page (vs. Rotten Tomatoes user ratings) it seems to be pretty well correlated. It seems to do a bad job identifying "eh" movies (e.g., Gangster Squad: BS-80 RT-64 and Hansel & Gretel: BS-76 RT-64). Buzzscale scores also seem to be more uniform in nature: pretty much everything is 70-85.

Any thoughts on "ratings effects"? E.g., proportionality to either gush about a movie or pan it, exclusively? Lack of nuanced reviews? (No one goes on Twitter to say, "It was whatever.")

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Post by joshuahedlund »

basseq wrote: post #5

Interesting idea; I'd be interested to see a full correlation between Buzzscale scores and other ratings sites (IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes). Based on a quick analysis of the top movies on the front page (vs. Rotten Tomatoes user ratings) it seems to be pretty well correlated. It seems to do a bad job identifying "eh" movies (e.g., Gangster Squad: BS-80 RT-64 and Hansel & Gretel: BS-76 RT-64). Buzzscale scores also seem to…

It does seem like "gushers" and "panners" tend to overcrowd reviews, but I was curious enough to do a quick Twitter search. About half of these results are "ok" tweets about movies/TV shows, so maybe there are enough people going to Twitter to say "whatever": https://twitter.com/search?q=watched%20was%20ok

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Post by gsharma »

Looks interesting. fflick.com did this sometime back and were acquired by Google.

A feature suggestion - "Enter your email to get weekly notification for movies with more than 80 buzzscore" (where 80 is editable.) An extension to this could be email me movies that are popular for their comedy, acting or the story.

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