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You mention scraping, but did you actually scrape these? I just discovered that IMDB publishes textual data dumps. They appear to be pretty complete. Terms of u
by sigil 13y ago
You mention scraping, but did you actually scrape these? I just discovered that IMDB publishes textual data dumps. They appear to be pretty complete. Terms of use are non-commercial, but I'd love to see more analyses like this!
http://www.imdb.com/interfaces http://www.imdb.com/interfaces
- tmoertel 13y agoIf you'd like to see more analyses, I gave a short talk about analyzing IMDB data with R and Perl a few years ago. Here are the slides: http://community.moertel.com/~thor/talks/pgh-pm-perl-and-r.pdf http://community.moertel.com/~thor/talks/pgh-pm-perl-and-r.p... A blog post on the topic: http://blog.moertel.com/posts/2006-01-17-mining-gold-from-the-internet-movie-database-part-1.html http://blog.moertel.com/posts/2006-01-17-mining-gold-from-th...
- deanclatworthy 13y agoThe data files have been available for years. The problem is they are poorly structured and also incomplete. It's impossible to create links sometimes between genre data and movie data as the genre data is linked to a title, and not an IMDB (unique) ID.