This directory contains the data behind the story Be Suspicious Of Online Movie Ratings, Especially Fandango’s.
fandango_score_comparison.csv contains every film that has a Rotten Tomatoes rating, a RT User rating, a Metacritic score, a Metacritic User score, and IMDb score, and at least 30 fan reviews on Fandango. The data from Fandango was pulled on Aug. 24, 2015.
| Column | Definition |
|---|---|
| FILM | The film in question |
| RottenTomatoes | The Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score for the film |
| RottenTomatoes_User | The Rotten Tomatoes user score for the film |
| Metacritic | The Metacritic critic score for the film |
| Metacritic_User | The Metacritic user score for the film |
| IMDB | The IMDb user score for the film |
| Fandango_Stars | The number of stars the film had on its Fandango movie page |
| Fandango_Ratingvalue | The Fandango ratingValue for the film, as pulled from the HTML of each page. This is the actual average score the movie obtained. |
| RT_norm | The Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score for the film , normalized to a 0 to 5 point system |
| RT_user_norm | The Rotten Tomatoes user score for the film , normalized to a 0 to 5 point system |
| Metacritic_norm | The Metacritic critic score for the film, normalized to a 0 to 5 point system |
| Metacritic_user_nom | The Metacritic user score for the film, normalized to a 0 to 5 point system |
| IMDB_norm | The IMDb user score for the film, normalized to a 0 to 5 point system |
| RT_norm_round | The Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score for the film , normalized to a 0 to 5 point system and rounded to the nearest half-star |
| RT_user_norm_round | The Rotten Tomatoes user score for the film , normalized to a 0 to 5 point system and rounded to the nearest half-star |
| Metacritic_norm_round | The Metacritic critic score for the film, normalized to a 0 to 5 point system and rounded to the nearest half-star |
| Metacritic_user_norm_round | The Metacritic user score for the film, normalized to a 0 to 5 point system and rounded to the nearest half-star |
| IMDB_norm_round | The IMDb user score for the film, normalized to a 0 to 5 point system and rounded to the nearest half-star |
| Metacritic_user_vote_count | The number of user votes the film had on Metacritic |
| IMDB_user_vote_count | The number of user votes the film had on IMDb |
| Fandango_votes | The number of user votes the film had on Fandango |
| Fandango_Difference | The difference between the presented Fandango_Stars and the actual Fandango_Ratingvalue |
fandango_scrape.csv contains every film we pulled from Fandango.
| Column | Definiton |
|---|---|
| FILM | The movie |
| STARS | Number of stars presented on Fandango.com |
| RATING | The Fandango ratingValue for the film, as pulled from the HTML of each page. This is the actual average score the movie obtained. |
| VOTES | number of people who had reviewed the film at the time we pulled it. |