[Chicago] netflix prize

[Massimo Di Pierro]

thank you Kumar.

Massimo

On Mar 27, 2008, at 5:53 PM, Kumar McMillan 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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