Movie Data Set

This is a dataset of Movies. The original data from the UCI database have been cleaned up and converted from HTML to CSV.

• Syntax errors in the original HTML files have been cleaned up.
• Script for converting HTML files into CSV was added (see file data/make).
• Some additional columns (eg. Ref:) were omitted from the CSV output as they can not be parsed easily by a computer (the HTML files were intact, you can continue working on this easily).
• The following list of files should be “ready”:
  • actors.csv
  • casts.csv
  • remakes.csv
  • studios.csv
  • synonyms.csv
  • main.html
  • people.html

How to contribute

Despite the effort, there are many ways this dataset can be enhanced:

• Characterize what type of films the database contains. Currently, the description only says over 10000 films including many older, odd, and cult films, which is not a very precise definition...
• Clean up one of these files: awtypes.html, locales.html, quotes.html or sayings.html.
• Devise a way of making the non-machine-readable columns (usually the last one) machine-readable.
• Make the date columns machine-readable (lot of noise currently).
• Check for errors in the data.