I made a website that rates the latest movies by analyzing social media

Re:I made a website that rates the latest movies by analyzin... by adventured on Friday February 08, 2013 @11:29PM (#5191668)

Look good, but it needs to assess sentiment rather than just buzz (and it needs to grade buzz a lot better).

Gangster Squad for example has a 80 buzz score, but it got between terrible and mediocre reviews. Django has an 85 buzz score, but got almost universally great reviews. Django will make roughly 4 to 5 times as much money as Gangster Squad, and was just about blanket everywhere in the media 24/7, so it's very unlikely Ganster has anywhere close to as much actual buzz as Django.

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Re:I made a website that rates the latest movies by analyzin... by F_J_H on Saturday February 09, 2013 @08:03AM (#5192442)

You're right, but your comment made me think of something Andy Warhol once said:

"Don't pay any attention to what they write about you, just measure it in inches"

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Re:I made a website that rates the latest movies by analyzin... by visarga on Saturday February 09, 2013 @07:39AM (#5192413)

I'd train a linear regression on the text features to approximate the box office returns. That would be a way to build a rating system - the value of the function is the rating itself.

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Re:I made a website that rates the latest movies by analyzin... by mrgordon on Saturday February 09, 2013 @05:52AM (#5192296)

Exactly. I'd love to see this with sentiment analysis (ideally done by humans instead of support vector machines)

The data from people using Senti to rank movie sentiment has been interesting: https://senti.crowdflower.com

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