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Re:IMDB data by notyourwork on Sunday April 24, 2011 @09:09PM (#2480054)
That sounds like a great example database for database classes! Something a student could wrap their head around to understand the dataset. I found a lot of times students new to database concepts had trouble unless examples were given in terms of a dataset they could relate to or at least understand the relationships without the DB language.
Re:IMDB data by maneesh on Monday April 25, 2011 @09:00AM (#2481123)
At Stanford in CS107 we had to write an IMDB six degrees of separation, using this same database. Insert the names of 2 actors, and our app will calculate the degrees of separation between them. Kevin Bacon was highly connected :)
Re:IMDB data by notyourwork on Monday April 25, 2011 @09:49AM (#2481212)
Who doesn't love Kevin Bacon! What a great project, this would applicable as an enhancement to projects like xbmc.