# Fandango

This directory contains the data behind the story [Be Suspicious Of Online Movie Ratings, Especially Fandango’s](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fandango-movies-ratings/).

`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.

This dataset was scraped from [FiveThirtyEight - fandango](https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/fandango)