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Internet Movie Database
The data: statistician that I am, I have been amusing myself in my free time by trying to compare ratings of books and ratings of movies. For books I have looked at user ratings on goodreads.com, for movies I have used imdb.com. In each case I have downloaded details, then matched them by title and author/writer (IMDB lists the book author if a movie is based on a book) and compared the average rating (first converting the ten-point IMDB rating to the same five-point scale used by Goodreads). For the purposes of comparison I have kept to theatrically released movies with at least 1000 votes, and ignored sequel movies (which are often matched to the same book as the first of a series), or weird titles like "Night of the Living Dead 3D".
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See what your friends are reading.
The data: statistician that I am, I have been amusing myself in my free time by trying to compare ratings of books and ratings of movies. For books I have looked at user ratings on goodreads.com, for movies I have used imdb.com. In each case I have downloaded details, then matched them by title and author/writer (IMDB lists the book author if a movie is based on a book) and compared the average rating (first converting the ten-point IMDB rating to the same five-point scale used by Goodreads). For the purposes of comparison I have kept to theatrically released movies with at least 1000 votes, and ignored sequel movies (which are often matched to the same book as the first of a series), or weird titles like "Night of the Living Dead 3D".
#Books #Social Networks #Social & Communications 113 social mentions
