Statistics and Data Analytics in the Film Industry

Add to your list(s) Download to your calendar using vCal

• Allègre Hadida, Judge Business School
• Thursday 07 May 2020, 19:15-21:30
• Amgen Ltd, Cambridge Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 0WG.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Peter Watson.

This talk has been canceled/deleted

Film studios have for some time been using statistical methods to look at predicting aspects of a film such as the type and distribution of audiences, box office takings, and even the creative side. New online streaming services, including Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, also base most of their decisions on advanced data analytics and recommender systems. Such approaches, however, have a mixed track record, and most filmmakers still abide by William Goldman’s 1983 quote that when it comes to predicting the success of motion pictures, ‘nobody knows anything.’ To this day, the distribution of box office revenue and online consumption of movies remains highly skewed with asymmetric tails. In this seminar, we look at various approaches to modelling film performance and their key insights, and consider the importance of statistics and data analytics in the movie business in the future.

This talk is part of the Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG) series.

This talk is included in these lists:

This talk is not included in any other list

Note that ex-directory lists are not shown.