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GOATvs open data: what people pick head to head
What it is
GOATvs ranks the greatest of all time by asking one question again and again: here are two names, which is greater? For Movies and for Songs (English & Global), the picks are added up and free to download: how often each name was picked over each other name it met, and each name's wins, losses and skips. Free to use for anything, with credit to GOATvs (CC BY 4.0).
What we found
IMDb's three highest-rated films are The Shawshank Redemption, The Godfather and The Dark Knight. Head to head, people pick the same three in the opposite order: The Dark Knight, The Godfather, The Shawshank Redemption. Comedies, action and horror do better in a duel than in a rating: Airplane! wins 83% of its duels and Anchorman 81%. Dramas, biographies and older classics do worse: Schindler's List wins 48% of its duels and The Intouchables 14%. Asked for a rating, people reward the film they respect. Asked to choose, they take the one they would watch again.
What is not in it
Nothing about a single person: no accounts, no IDs, no dates, no order of picks. Only totals. Picks that came from an imported ratings file are left out, and so are votes that look automated.
How to use it
There are two files for each list: one row per name, and one row per pair that met. A short script compares the movie picks with IMDb's ratings. The files, the script and the notes on what the numbers can and cannot tell you are on GitHub.
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