Wikipedia data could be used to predict box office success

Analysing information listed on Wikipedia movie pages could be used to anticipate a film's success at the box office.

Researchers from Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Central European University and Aalto University, Finland have been building a model to predict financial success of movies based on socially generated data sets.

By: Philippa Warr, Edited by: Ian Steadman

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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-11/07/wikipedia-box-office-predictions