I did a quick and dirty project[1] involving IMDB and Neo4j when I had some time off between jobs over the holidays. I used screen scraping to get the list of IMDB ids for the AFI top 100 movies and then made calls to MyMovieAPI to pull down IMDB data about each AFI film. I wasn't aware of the imdb.com/interfaces at that point, but it wasn't really my goal to do the "best" possible implementation since it was just a learning experience. For those interested, there's a simple overview of the project[2] that shows what (i thought) were interesting questions about the data: for instance, which actors, if any have appeared in 2 or more of the top 25 AFI films?
After looking at imdb.com/interfaces, I'm not sure that it has what I'm looking for. My plan on expanding this project at some point in the future is to start with data from Freebase[3] since it's already presented in a normalized format and then filling in missing details via IMDB as necessary.
My ultimate goal is to generalize the N-degrees-to-Bacon trivia question to work with any two actors, but that requires getting a lot more data to work with.
I did a quick and dirty project[1] involving IMDB and Neo4j when I had some time off between jobs over the holidays. I used screen scraping to get the list of IMDB ids for the AFI top 100 movies and then made calls to MyMovieAPI to pull down IMDB data about each AFI film. I wasn't aware of the imdb.com/interfaces at that point, but it wasn't really my goal to do the "best" possible implementation since it was just a learning experience. For those interested, there's a simple overview of the project[2] that shows what (i thought) were interesting questions about the data: for instance, which actors, if any have appeared in 2 or more of the top 25 AFI films?
After looking at imdb.com/interfaces, I'm not sure that it has what I'm looking for. My plan on expanding this project at some point in the future is to start with data from Freebase[3] since it's already presented in a normalized format and then filling in missing details via IMDB as necessary.
My ultimate goal is to generalize the N-degrees-to-Bacon trivia question to work with any two actors, but that requires getting a lot more data to work with.
All in all, it's a fun dataset to play with.
[1]https://github.com/mcphilip/film-graph
[2]http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/mcphilip/fi...
[3]http://www.freebase.com/film