December 09, 2005

meetacritic

I'm working on my ICM final. It is going to be a web application that asks you what movies you like, and then goes through a database to find movie critics who share your taste, and then it lets you know who those critics are (and some more movies they like).

Work is moving along at a reasonable pace. I just spent an hour cleaning up the database that I scraped from metacritic. One thing that I noticed is that metacritic's data is pretty bad...there are lots of duplicate names, misspelled names, incorrect publications attributed to writers, and so on. Yikes. They must not be pulling the information from a database (otherwise why would the data be so inconsistent). It must be a lot of work to manually update their website all the time.

Posted December 9, 2005 04:27 PM. Categories: Week 14 | Permalink