2013-08-29, 00:35
Wikipedia Predicts How Movies Will Perform at the Box Office
For the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on producing movies every year, predicting how they'll perform at the box office is still more art than science. The best metric, at the moment, is nothing more than counting the number of theaters carrying the film on opening weekend.
But a new method that takes the pulse of the general public via Wikipedia activity can predict how a movie will fare up to a month before it hits theaters.
From Monitoring to Prediction
The Web has produced lots
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DiscoverT...Gs79hHKqI/
For the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on producing movies every year, predicting how they'll perform at the box office is still more art than science. The best metric, at the moment, is nothing more than counting the number of theaters carrying the film on opening weekend.
But a new method that takes the pulse of the general public via Wikipedia activity can predict how a movie will fare up to a month before it hits theaters.
From Monitoring to Prediction
The Web has produced lots
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DiscoverT...Gs79hHKqI/