"Why provide rating dates and movie names?" Other datasets provide it. Cinematch doesn’t currently use this data. Use it if you want. As it happens we provide

"Why provide rating dates and movie names?" Other datasets provide it. Cinematch doesn’t currently use this data. Use it if you want. As it happens we provided years of release for all but a few movies in the dataset; those seven movies have NULL as the "year" of release. Sorry about that. "Why not provide other data about the movies, like genres, directors, or actors?" We know others do. Again, Cinematch doesn’t currently use any of this data. Use it if you want. http://www.netflixprize.com/faq http://www.netflixprize.com/faq