Datamob: movies

The New York Times Movie Reviews API

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:46:13 -0500

Programmatically access over 22,000 New York Times movie reviews dating back to 1924. Data available in JSON, XML or serialized PHP. Registration required.

See the announcement on Open for more information.

url: http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/movie_reviews_api

Freebase Data Dumps

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:06:28 -0500

Full data dumps of the Freebase shared database of the world's knowledge. Available in tab-separated values format and a low-level link export suitable for converting into RDF or XML. Creative Commons Attribution license.

See also: Freebase API and Freebase Wikipedia Extraction (WEX).

url: http://download.freebase.com/datadumps/

Star Wars Kid Data Dump

Sun, 25 May 2008 22:01:05 -0500

Data from Waxy.org's server logs concerning the initial spread of the Star Wars Kid viral video in 2003. Public domain.

url: http://waxy.org/2008/05/star_wars_kid_the_data_dump/

Freebase API

Wed, 07 May 2008 20:50:45 -0500

Query the Freebase shared database of the world's knowledge via a JSON-based query language.

url: http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000544e14d

Netflix Prize

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:48:22 -0500

"The Netflix Prize seeks to substantially improve the accuracy of predictions about how much someone is going to love a movie based on their movie preferences." Register to download the dataset.

url: http://www.netflixprize.com//index

Oscar-nominated Movie Piracy Data

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:35:50 -0500

Piracy data on all 186 Oscar-nominated films from 2003 to 2008. Compiled and published by Andy Baio.

url: http://waxy.org/2008/02/pirating_the_20_2/

Thinkbase

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:19:59 -0500

Thinkbase uses Thinkmap software to create an interactive visual representation of the semantic relationships in Freebase. Presents a paned view with Freebase on the right and a graphical representation of the topics in that Freebase page on the left. By Christian Hirsch.

url: http://thinkbase.cs.auckland.ac.nz/

Freebase

Wed, 07 May 2008 20:55:44 -0500

Open, shared database of the world's knowledge containing structured information on topics like movies, music, people and locations. Programmatically accessible via the Freebase API.

url: http://www.freebase.com/

Interactive Netflix Prize Visualization

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:34:12 -0500

A visualization of the 17,700 movies that comprise the Netflix Prize competition dataset. By Todd Holloway.

url: http://abeautifulwww.com/2007/04/03/an-interactive-visualization-of-the-netflix-prize-dataset/