On Sunday, there was an article in the New York Times which displays a lot of data about what DVDs are in people's NetFlix queues in various parts of the country.
You can find the article here:
A Peak into Netflix Queues
Your job this week is to do two things:
1. Play with this data and see what trends you can find. Write about what you find here.
2. Find some other interesting displays of data on the web and share at least one of them here.
Both of these things are due by Friday.
Have fun!
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31 comments:
I chose New York Region for examining. I looked at the results of " The Curious Case of Benjamen Button."
There were Barely any light areas. In the red areas it was ranked #1. In any orange to yellow areas, it was ranked Top 12-30.
I also found out that even the least favorite movie rented has a metacritic score of 100 and a hate score of zero.
Personally "The Curious Case of Benjamen Button" is a favorite of mine. That's why I think it deserves to be #1.
I chose A Peek into Netflix Queues. I saw the results of "Gran Torino".
In Croton-on-Hudson "Gran Torino" was in the 9-8 space in most rented movie. But in Yonkers it was rated 22-14.
The least rated movie, "Cadillac Records", was rated 3-60.
In Croton, "Gran Torino" is my favorite movie that I watched in 2009.
1) when I looked over the data I found that most of the number one ranked videos were the action/adventure also the comedy movies like the movie called "the ciorius case of benjamin button" one more is the movie called "slumdog millonair".
2) It very well shocked me that the data collected for a very funny movie called "tropic thunder" was one of the lowwest ranked movies of all.
Top ten Favorite foods
http://www.the-top-tens.com/lists/top-ten-favourite-foods.asp
I found out that 27% voted pizza as their favorite food. (Pizza was #1) What shocked me was that 3.9% voted for hamburgers as their favorite food. (Hamburgers were #10) I also found out that Sushi was #6 with 5.2%. I do love sushi but, the reason why it's surprising is that people I know hate it.
THIS IS ADDING ON TO MY FIRST COMMENT!
#1 When looking at the data of the most rented movies through Netflix, I noticed that the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was ranked as number one or number two in New York. I also noticed that a lot of the movies that were ranked high were in the genre of Action or adventure.
#2. Click on the link below to see a cool way to show trends of our everyday life. Click on PDF file located under the pic to access larger image
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-It looks like “The Curious Cause of Benjamin Button” is the number one movie rented on Netflix.
-Almost everywhere in Denver has “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” as the top rented movie, but three places don’t even have it in the top fifty.
-“Man on Wire” got the biggest metacritic score, but it wasn’t even in the top fifty in most places.
A cool site to check out is: http://www.techeblog.com/
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1. I am seeing a lot of red for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Also Cadillac Records wasn’t no.1 in any of the cities shown and Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail wasn’t even in Seattle chart.
2. Did you know that are about 2,250 Google images results for Nanerpus?
Well you do now.
Input out!
- What I noticed was that in some places (for example: Teanack and Saddle Brook) the movie, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was ranked as number on the list of movies.
-Did you know that Twilight was rated as number on the list of top ten fan favorite movies? The list was,(in order) 1.Twilight, 2.New Moon, 3.The Dark Knight, 4.The Dark Knight:The IMAX, 5.Iron Man, 6.Transformers, 7.Harry Potter and The Order of Pheonix, 8.Pirates of the Carribean: At Worlds End, 9.Wall-e, and 10.Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I think that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince should be number one beause I thought that the movie was very nice, but then again that's just my opinion.
A cool site to check out:
* http://www.fandango.com/top10fanfavoritemovies *
I Noticed Wall-e was only number 1 rental in 1 zip code witch was 11371 in many places it was in 20’s or 30’s
I noticed Cadillac Records had no number ones, most cities it didn’t even make the list the closet to the top was in 07088 were it was number 3
Another thing that I noticed was that ‘True Blood: Season 1: Disc 1’ never made the top ten, in Minneapolis area there was only around 15 counties witch even had it in the top fifty! 21 in the Seattle area! In the New York area there was also around 15, I noticed that in New York an Minneapolis that both were around the middle of the area. Also in Miami there were no counties witch had it in the top 50
My Personal favorite ‘Knowing’ in Minneapolis the area that rented ‘True Blood’ did have the top 50 of knowing same with New York the counties that rented true blood had knowing not in the top 50
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Yolonda Figgle
Data to come ASAP
Favorite Simpsons Characters
1) Homer Simpson
2) Bart Simpson
3) Ralph Wiggum
4) Groundskeeper Willie
5) Lisa Simpson
6) Charles Montgomery "Monty" Burns
7) Moe Szyslak
8) Chief Clancy Wiggum
9) Robert Underdunk Terwilliger aka Sideshow Bob
10) Marge Simpson
http://www.the-top-tens.com/lists/favorite-simpsons-characters.asp
The Top 10 Wacky Internet Acronyms
1. gtg
2. lol
3. rofl
4. bwt
5. sup
http://www.textingadvice.com/abbreviations/top20_most_poular_texting_abbreviations.htm
Top 10 favorite teen books 2008 (Strangely I couldn't find a 2009 one.)
1. Eclipse by Stephenie Mayer
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows by J.K. Rowling
3. Diary of A Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kenney
4. Vampire Acadamy by Richelle Mead
5. Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson
6. City of Bones By Cassandra Clare
7. The Sweet Far Thing By Libba Bray
8. Extras By Scott Westerfeld
9. Before I Die By Jenny Downham
10. Twisted By Laurie Halse Anderson
Eclipse, Maximum Ride, And Harry Potter wern't much of a surprise to me when I saw them on the list. But when they daid "Diary of a Wimpy Kid", I was thinking, "Isn't that a KIDS book?".
www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/teenreading/teenstopten/ttt2008.cfn
And I was also looking around that Netflicks link you put up, and some of the data was pretty cool. I saw a big trend on seeing "Twilight" and "The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button". Twilight was pretty obvious, but I've never heard of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. There was a bit of yellow-orange areas for both movies.
I found out that with all the towns or cities in the New York area that are this color orange•••• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was there #1. Also most of the towns have the same color I think it is this way because, they tend to like the similar things because they are closer to each other and share the same ideas.
Also the west of the country likes the movie Slum Dog Million Air mostly. But the over all movie was the Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Also the #1 cell phone in America is the Motorola Droid. And I got that information at http://www.pcworld.com
In Rogers, Minneapolis, I found out that “Yes Man,” the comedy starring hilarity genius Jim Carrey, actually was ranked number 7 in the top 10, which in fact is higher than “Yes Man” ever went in Minneapolis. I actually haven’t seen most of the selected movies. Also, I figured out that in Seattle, “Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Crystal Skull” was chosen as a favorite in Bremerton. When it was, it was number 44.
The article I found on my own can be found at http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/9150/title/Math_Trek__Social_Networking_for_Zebras
It talks all about how when many zebras are together, they split up into smaller groups. There is generally one big clump, and the excluded have their little group. It’s really interesting, and it kind of reminds me of how we, the students divide into smaller cliques during lunch and recess period. That’s like saying we’re no better than zebras.
the movie that was rented the most from netflex is Wall-E 100 critics loved the movie and the rating was 94 the highiest none of the critics hated in the review it did not say abad thing about walle i observed all the movvies and i said it was the only one that had 934 no movie was even close at all
Part #1- "A Peek into Netflix Queues"
I decided that I would break down the Netflix article into categories that all compared and looked at different movies, zip codes, etc. I thought this would be a good way to share all the data that I have come up with everyone. Here are the three categories:
Movies: The Proposal (a favorite of mine)
Bed Time Stories
This movie was rated 48% out of 100% by the critics, and ranked number one in a few counties. To me it seemed like it was commonly rented in the mid west, like in Denver, where it got to be ranked at number three a couple of times and in Mineapolis, where it was ranked in the top tens.
Bed Time Stories was given a 33% out of 100% by the critics, and seemed to be slightly less popular in major cities like Boston and New York. Although, in Dallas the movie made it into the top ten list in places like Thornton and Aurora.
Cities: Boston and L.A.
When I looked at the movie Eagle Eye, I noticed that the rankings in Boston and L.A. were a lot different, and I wondered if this had to do with the location or not. In L.A. Eagle eye made the top ten list at number two a numerous amount of times. On the other hand, Eagle Eye in Boston rarely made the list, and when it did, it ranked in the thirties.
Zip Codes: 10520 (Croton) vs. 10583 (Scarsdale)
To show the differences and comparisons between these to towns in New York, I chose to do a bulleted list to represent the top five movies:
10520:
1) MIlk
2) Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3) Doubt
4) Changeling
5) Slumdog Millionaire
10583:
1) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2) Doubt
3) Milk
4) Slumdog Millionaire
5) Rachel Getting Married
I could tell that these two towns had the same movie taste, because 4 out of 5 movies were on both lists and almost in the same order.
Part #2
I found two pieces of data that I think people will enjoy.......
1) Baltimore Orioles Stats (for all the baseball fans)
http://baltimore.orioles.mlb.com/stats/sortable_player_stats.jsp?c_id=bal
2) Broadway Stats (for all the musical/drama lovers)
http://www.broadwayleague.com/index.php?url_identifier=season-by-season-stats-1
Ok so I found a good website that shows the top 250 movies in america!
http://www.imdb.com/chart/top
Go to this website ^ and you can find out what movies people like these days.
1. When I look over the data I saw that most of the movies that where ranked number 1 where action movies like the Ciorius case of Benjamin Button and a nother one was Doubt.
2. it was shocking to me that a movie called 7 pounds was ranked so high because I like it but not to much people I know watch it.
1. I did the Denver region...
It seems to me that "The curious case of Benjamin Button" is the most popular movie, and "The Wrestler" is in last place.
2.Did you know that the top five most popular gum is:
Stride
Trident
Orbit
Extra
Winter Fresh
1) When I was looking through the movies people rented from NetFlix I noticed that The Curious Case of Benjiman Button is the top movie rented from NY. I also notice that it had a rating of 70 on a scale of
0-100 from the critics.
2) New Jersy Vote Backs Marijuana for Severly Ill
Marijuana legalized to help patients with severe illnesses.
The New Jersey Legislature approved the measure that patients with illnesses including Cancer, AIDS, Lou Gehrig's Disease, Muscular Dystrophy and Multiple sclerosis have access to marijuana that is grown and distributed through state monitered dispensaries.
1. One trend I see is that both Defiance and Quantum of Solace are movies by Daniel Craig and are on the list but defiance is more popular. The thing I don’t understand is that quantum of solace is a bond movie and I’m sure that your average bond movie makes more than your average WWII movie.
2. Defiance is located in the same place alphabetically as it is on the “most rented” list.
3. Many films seem to be either more or less loved in New York and Boston than the rest of the US.
http://www.enterpriseirregulars.com/6495/interesting-data-statistics-about-sap-sap-influencer-summit/
this has a lot of fun and interesting data
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is rented in every single place that I looked at in New York, and in most places in the rest of the cities. When I moved the slider over to "most rented," I saw that there were only very few places that didn't rent The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Denver only had three places that didn't rent it (though one of them said that the data was not available).
I looked around the NY Times website, and found this article: http://www.nytimes.com/projects/magazine/ideas/2009/?ref=multimedia#a
1.One trend I saw was that in the most rented movies the top ones were mostly drama/action. Another trend I saw that in the westchester area most of the rankings had the Curios Case of Benjerman Button. A third thing I noticed was that the least rented movies were movies that had either just come out or were really old.
2. The top five most expensize chocolate in the world:
1.CHOCOPOLOGIE: $2,600 per pound
2.NOKA: $854 per pound
3.DELAFEE: $504 per pound
4.RICHART: $120 per pound
5.GODIVA (special G collection): $117 per pound
for more info go to:
http://trifter.com/practical-travel/world-cuisine/the-five-most-expensive-chocolates-in-the-world/
Part One.
I found a couple of trends in the Netflixs data. One thing I found was that it you went to most rented you could see that in Denver the most rented movie is The Curios Case of Benjamin Button was most rented in all most all of Denver! Only five places don’t have The Curios Case of Benjamin Button as there number one rented movie. Another trend I found that was in Washington I found that one part of Washington (in the middle) really enjoyed the movie Milk. Then when you go farther out in Washington (south east) they don’t even have Milk in there top fifty rented movies, unlike Bay Area which the movie Milk was rented all around.
Part Two.
Here are two really cool articles/graphs I found.
1. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/07/31/business/20080801-metrics-graphic.html (how different groups spend their day)
2. http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/is-costa-rica-even-the-happiest-country-in-latin-america/?scp=1&sq=graph&st=cse (happiness in Latin America)
When looking at the general areas and the critic's ratings I noticed that some of the movies the critics rated highest are some of the least popular rental choices.
For example Julie and Julia (awesome movie if you like cooking) was one of the critic's favorite movies. The people renting the movies thought otherwise (in every area the article showed ratings for).
Another example: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was within the top ten of almost every zip code in every area. The critics rated it a little better than the movies in the middle area of the ratings chart (the slider/bar on the top of the page).
I also noticed that renters tended to avoid movies critics hated and movies critics rated the best.
For example, Bride Wars was the movie that critics hated the most. It was also below the top ten in every general area the article displays.
Another example: Wall-E was rated the highest out of every single movie that was rated. There were a few zipcodes where it was in the top ten (and at least one where it was number one on the list) but in general Wall-E was somewhere in the top fifty everywhere else.
look here for movie ticket sales from 1995 to 2009: http://www.the-numbers.com/market/
I looked at Boston and saw that The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was number 1 in Bedford, Billerica, Pinehurst, Lexington, Burlington, and Woburn (The end of Woburn looks like a m but it’s a r n so its Woburn). All of these towns are right next to each other and are up north in the right corner of the map.
This is other info that I looked up McDonald's sells approximately 4.2 million hamburgers a day in the United States. On another interesting note, of the 4.2 million sold, 3.9 million will be the cause of diarrhea later. McDonalds has sold over 100 billion beef hamburgers worldwide.
I noticed that 'the curious case of Benjamin button' is really popular. its usually in the top 2 or 3 and is on most/almost all of the lists. mostly on the north eastern parts of the map
the information i looked up was about guitars (i know, shocker). a study taken in England shows that 81% or electric guitar players are boys. Leaving only 19% of guitarists are girls. The article talks about how gender sometimes effects choices made by teenagers ages 14 through 16
I noticed that The Curios Case Of Benjamin Button was ranked 1 or 2 in every place shown except for parts of Bay Area and Washington it was 4 or 5.
I alsow noticed that Adventure land was one of the least rent movies shown.
I found out that the 7percent of Broad Way tickets were bought online in the years 1999 to 2000, in the year 2009 to 2010 40percent of tickets were bought online
the 40 percent was bought online for Broad Way plays
I found out that in different states across the country
Slum dog millionaire was always in the top ten list
The least rented movies I have never heard
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