Netflix ratings over time

To date, I've rented 65 DVDs (movies and TV shows) from Netflix, and I thought it might be interesting to see what it would look like to plot the ratings for those DVDs over time. So I did it. I'm still not sure whether or not it's actually interesting, but I figured I'd share anyway ... just in case.

So here are DVDs 1 through 65 (along the x-axis) with their 1 through 5 star rating (on the y-axis), along with a trend line that shows the average rating of all DVDs to that point:

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Interesting but what of selection bias? what movies were given a ranking of 1?

r-gyle said...

Top Gun had better been one of the "5s"

Unknown said...

All I can figure is your tolerance of crummy movies is increasing. Good for you!

Anonymous said...

You have way too much time on your hands...so which ones do your recommend?

T-Bone said...

In terms of recommendations, here are some the ones that got 5-stars:
- Batman Begins
- Annie Hall
- Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
- The Queen
- Jimmy Carter: Man from the Plains
- Blood Diamond
- Gandhi
- Why We Fight

As for the lowest rated ones:
- P.S. I Love You
- The Holiday
- 21
- Clerks 2
- Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
- Hard Candy
- Across the Universe

Anonymous said...

My date convinced me to see "No Country for Old Men" instead of "P.S. I Love You" when it was out...we never saw "P.S.I Love You" -- guess we will go with your recommendation on that!