[Chicago] netflix prize

[Kumar McMillan]

Massimo, I've attached the README from the download.  It explains
what's contained in the data and yes there is movie title and release
year.  I've also heard of how people have been getting sneaky and
matching the rating data (which just has CustomerID) to the movie
data, crawling IMDB, and "matching" netflix ratings to that of IMDB to
expose the identity behind CustomerIDs.  I don't think netflix was too
happy about this ;)  I just read it somewhere a while back, haven't
looked at the details.  Google gave me:
http://www.netflixprize.com/community/viewtopic.php?pid=5864

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Massimo Di Pierro
<mdipierro at cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> Let us know what you find.
>
>  Massimo
>
>
>
>  On Mar 27, 2008, at 4:50 PM, Tom Printy wrote:
>
>  > On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 12:20 -0500, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>  >> Does anybody know what information is in the data they provide. Other
>  >> than user's rating, what's in the movies database that one can use
>  >> for correlation (like actors in the movies, producers, genre, etc.)?
>  > Well we could crawl IMDB for this info. Or I may be able to get my
>  > hands
>  > on the data ;)
>  >
>  >
>  > -Tom
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