Rotten Tomatoes Movies

Published: 24 September 2024| Version 1 | DOI: 10.17632/kbpvrwfp5z.1
Contributor:
Tiago Rocha

Description

The objective of this research is to prove or refute the proposition “Do I agree with those who agree with those who agree with me about movies? Do I disagree with those who disagree with those who disagree with me about movies?” by extracting data from the review-aggregation website for film and television Rotten Tomatoes. Thus, using large volumes of available data, it will be possible to construct a graph that represents the relationships between two distinct groups of critics (professional critics and the general public), films and their respective evaluations so that both the global relationships between the groups of critics (and their transitivity) and the dispersion of the scores attributed by each group (a possible degree or indicator of agreement between these evaluations) can be analyzed. This dataset consists of a set of major motion pictures released in the US collected from 1970 to 2024. For each film, the URL, title, release date, critics rating, and audience rating were captured.

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Steps to reproduce

As the API offered by the Rotten Tomatoes website is intended for corporate audiences, any data scraping technique will lead to obtaining the data made available here.

Institutions

Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Categories

Cinema

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