Movie Analytics A Hollywood Introduction to Big Data /

• Main Authors: Haughton, Dominique (Author), McLaughlin, Mark-David (Author), Mentzer, Kevin (Author), Zhang, Changan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Statistics,
• Subjects: Statistics.; Data mining.; Computer graphics.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Computer Graphics.

Movies will never be the same after you learn how to analyze movie data, including key data mining, text mining and social network analytics concepts. These techniques may then be used in endless other contexts. In the movie application, this topic opens a lively discussion on the current developmen...

Table of Contents:

• What do we know about analyzing movie data: section on past literature.- What does "Big Data" mean; the data scientist point of view.- Visualization of very large networks: the co-starring social network.- Movie attendance and trends
• Oscar prediction and prediction markets
• Can we predict Oscars from Twitter and movie review data.