fivethirtyeight: fandango/fandango_score

This directory contains the data behind the story Be Suspicious Of Online Movie Ratings, Especially Fandango’s.

fandango_score_comparison.csv contains every film that has a Rotten Tomatoes rating, a RT User rating, a Metacritic score, a Metacritic User score, and IMDb score, and at least 30 fan reviews on Fandango. The data from Fandango was pulled on Aug. 24, 2015.

Column	Definition
FILM	The film in question
RottenTomatoes	The Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score for the film
RottenTomatoes_User	The Rotten Tomatoes user score for the film
Metacritic	The Metacritic critic score for the film
Metacritic_User	The Metacritic user score for the film
IMDB	The IMDb user score for the film
Fandango_Stars	The number of stars the film had on its Fandango movie page
Fandango_Ratingvalue	The Fandango ratingValue for the film, as pulled from the HTML of each page. This is the actual average score the movie obtained.
RT_norm	The Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score for the film , normalized to a 0 to 5 point system
RT_user_norm	The Rotten Tomatoes user score for the film , normalized to a 0 to 5 point system
Metacritic_norm	The Metacritic critic score for the film, normalized to a 0 to 5 point system
Metacritic_user_nom	The Metacritic user score for the film, normalized to a 0 to 5 point system
IMDB_norm	The IMDb user score for the film, normalized to a 0 to 5 point system
RT_norm_round	The Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score for the film , normalized to a 0 to 5 point system and rounded to the nearest half-star
RT_user_norm_round	The Rotten Tomatoes user score for the film , normalized to a 0 to 5 point system and rounded to the nearest half-star
Metacritic_norm_round	The Metacritic critic score for the film, normalized to a 0 to 5 point system and rounded to the nearest half-star
Metacritic_user_norm_round	The Metacritic user score for the film, normalized to a 0 to 5 point system and rounded to the nearest half-star
IMDB_norm_round	The IMDb user score for the film, normalized to a 0 to 5 point system and rounded to the nearest half-star
Metacritic_user_vote_count	The number of user votes the film had on Metacritic
IMDB_user_vote_count	The number of user votes the film had on IMDb
Fandango_votes	The number of user votes the film had on Fandango
Fandango_Difference	The difference between the presented Fandango_Stars and the actual Fandango_Ratingvalue

fandango_scrape.csv contains every film we pulled from Fandango.

Column	Definiton
FILM	The movie
STARS	Number of stars presented on Fandango.com
RATING	The Fandango ratingValue for the film, as pulled from the HTML of each page. This is the actual average score the movie obtained.
VOTES	number of people who had reviewed the film at the time we pulled it.

fandango/fandango_score_comparison: 71