Netflix analysis

Posted by Nick Loadholtes on 10/29/2006 filed in Math, Statistics, Thinking, analytics

Looking through the Netflix prize data, I saw something that made me do a double-take. Miss Congeniality seemed to be the most rated movie in the database. That struck me as odd, because I always imagined a movie like Lord Of The Rings would be the #1 most rated movie (since that the folks that I think Netflix is most popular with are into those movies).

Today I saw this analysis on the Netflix forums:
Netflix Prize: Forum / Miss Congeniality. In this posting there is a breakdown of the movie ratings, and it explains a few things. Like the most loved or the most hated. Its a pretty interesting read (especially if you are feeling lazy and don’t want to do the SQL, which is the category I fall into).

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