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Fandango

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.

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