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Show HN: CinemaBuff - Actor graphs using IMDB ratings
- thingsdoer 13y agoNeat! Where did you get the data?
- dl8 13y agoIMDb has a data dump: http://www.imdb.com/interfaces http://www.imdb.com/interfaces It's kinda a mess to parse through it and get the data in though.
- abeiz 13y agoThat data dump is a mess! I used it for my soundtrack project: http://thesoundtrackdb.com http://thesoundtrackdb.com
- dl8 13y agoDefinitely. I only parsed through the names, ratings, and years. Going back to parse more stuff such as the number of votes, genre, etc. is going to be the most painful part of this project.
- TsiCClawOfLight 13y agoCool project! By the way, small correction: It should be courtesy, not couretsy.
- danso 13y agoWhoa, I never knew imdb put their file as a dump. I've always tried to go through freebase
- advisedwang 13y agoClicking around a bit I think the only conclusion I draw is that variability from one movie to the next is much greater than any overall trend of an actor's career.
- jmilloy 13y agoFun. Fell a little flat when I found movies like "Craptastic" for Clint Eastwood, which he wasn't really involved with. Does the data dump have categories so you can restrict the list more appropriately?
- dc_ploy 13y agoThe thing with literal data, is that you don't get a comprehensive look on their "best" work. For example, Tom Hanks. As a cinema buff, an actor's work isn't rated based on his highest and lowest rating. http://i.imgur.com/MnVFiWF.png?1 http://i.imgur.com/MnVFiWF.png?1 I wouldn't show the highest and lowest rated film, but rank on awards and successful ($) hits. Also, showing an "average" is good, but can really hinder a true value.
- hfsktr 13y agoThis is cool. I was hoping to write something to look at movies differently (just something to get me working on something). I didn't even know IMDB let you get data. I don't know if it's possible but can you break games, shows, movies, etc out? Video games got shown next to movies (and probably shows). I would like to know if some actor does great on tv but flops games/movies etc. That and the random kept giving me foreign actors. I suppose that means it really is random...would be cool to see random by language or something.
- dl8 13y agoYeah absolutely, I initially want to start it small and slowly expand it to encompass a lot of those things with a variety of features. When I initially had the random actor, a vast majority of the time I would land up on someone who only had 1 movie, so basically a dot on the graph, so I restricted the eligibility of the random page for the actor to have at least 3 films under their belt.
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- RobinL 13y agoNice, simple and fun. There's a bug in an error message in the 'Compare' feature. If it can't find one of the two actors, it always says it can't find the first one. e.g. http://www.cinemabuff.net/comparison/?q1=Sam+Rockwell&q2=Jony+Depp http://www.cinemabuff.net/comparison/?q1=Sam+Rockwell&q2=Jon...
- dl8 13y agoThanks, will fix it tonight.
- LandoCalrissian 13y agoNicholas Cage has a shockingly even range...
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- dfrey 13y agoWhy is it that some movies are missing from the results? For example, when I searched "Daniel Day-Lewis", the movie "The Last of The Mohicans" was missing.
- dl8 13y agoI'm not sure, I'll look into it. I know I excluded many of the "Behind the Scenes" and "Making of" movies, but I'm not sure why legit ones are missing, thank you for reporting that specific example so I trace the problem.
- uses 13y agoVery cool. I did a similar thing a while back using the IMDB data files. It has a few views. Director ranking http://godsofluxury.com:5001/ http://godsofluxury.com:5001/ Director detail http://godsofluxury.com:5001/person/263239 http://godsofluxury.com:5001/person/263239 http://godsofluxury.com:5001/person/56779 http://godsofluxury.com:5001/person/56779 TV show by seasons http://godsofluxury.com:5001/tvshow/191909 http://godsofluxury.com:5001/tvshow/191909 Hopefully that can give you some inspiration.
- dl8 13y agoYeah I was planning to add very similar pages to those once I've cleaned up my data. How did you do the popularity rankings, or were those somehow included in IMDB's data dump and I overlooked?
- dl8 13y agoOr is that just a total # of votes for each movie combined?
- kevinwuhoo 13y agoI did a something similar that allows you to search for and graph IMDb TV show ratings. http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com
- gcatalfamo 13y agohttp://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon
- zokier 13y agoDidn't RottenTomatoes have this kind of feature back in the days? I remember being bit annoyed when they removed it.
- wentkenko 13y agoNice man I like the idea, its loading a bit slow for me just now but I recon that's cause its reached front page. I'm working on something using IMDB information as well right now, hope you done mind If I share it. It's getting an overhaul right now and more features are being implemented as we speak. http://filmfortonight.com/ http://filmfortonight.com/
- rotub 13y agoReally nice idea mate, well done.
- tmchow 13y agoEvery actor I search for right now returns a "Not Found" message.
- dl8 13y agoIt should be working again in a minute or two, sorry for the inconvenience.