[Chicago] netflix prize

[Massimo Di Pierro]

I agree. That's probably not what they want but I thought, perhaps,  
they were providing more data themselves.

Massimo

On Mar 27, 2008, at 9:50 PM, Jon Sudlow wrote:

> Your exactly right. I dont think netflix is looking for someone to  
> crawl a third party data source to get a fuzzy match and use those  
> results to help predict the ratings.
>
> By the way, when you do a group like this, one person is  
> responsible to register the crew and communicate with Netflix. Who  
> is the 'team leader', because we have to register to get our hands  
> on the ratings data.
> -jon
>
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Kumar McMillan  
> <kumar.mcmillan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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