Movie Analytics
A Hollywood Introduction to Big Data
Authors: Haughton, D., McLaughlin, M.-D., Mentzer, K., Zhang, C.
Free Preview- Current introduction to big data issues through an appealing and surprisingly complex subject: movie analytics
- Delves into text mining techniques through movie reviews, twitter data and social network analysis
- Includes visualization of the co-starring network, prediction of Oscar winners and analysis of movie attendance data
- All methods may be applied to myriad other contexts
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- About this book
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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 developments in big data from a data science perspective. This book is geared to applied researchers and practitioners and is meant to be practical. The reader will take a hands-on approach, running text mining and social network analyses with software packages covered in the book. These include R, SAS, Knime, Pajek and Gephi. The nitty-gritty of how to build datasets needed for the various analyses will be discussed as well. This includes how to extract suitable Twitter data and create a co-starring network from the IMDB database given memory constraints. The authors also guide the reader through an analysis of movie attendance data via a realistic dataset from France.
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“It covers various approaches and techniques for investigating big data on example of information available from the huge movie industry. … This innovative monograph can serve to lecturers and researchers interested in trying new approaches from movie evaluations in their own studies related to big data, networks, text mining, and complex systems.” (Stan Lipovetsky, Technometrics, Vol. 59 (2), April, 2017)
“This book covers the methods of analyzing big data in order to determine the success of a motion picture, what revenue it will bring in, and even how long it will last at a given location. … it will be most enjoyed by professional statisticians engaged in success prediction.” (James Van Speybroeck, Computing Reviews, January, 2016)
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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What Do We Know About Analyzing Movie Data?
Pages 1-2
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What Does “Big Data” Mean? The Data Scientist Point of View
Pages 3-4
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Visualization of Very Large Networks: The Co-starring Social Network
Pages 5-24
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Movie Attendance and Trends
Pages 25-36
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Oscar Prediction and Prediction Markets
Pages 37-39
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Movie Analytics
- Book Subtitle
- A Hollywood Introduction to Big Data
- Authors
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- Dominique Haughton
- Mark-David McLaughlin
- Kevin Mentzer
- Changan Zhang
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Statistics
- Copyright
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-09426-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-09426-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-09425-0
- Series ISSN
- 2191-544X
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VIII, 64
- Number of Illustrations
- 8 b/w illustrations, 45 illustrations in colour
- Topics
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