[pgh-pm] More communicating with text: New IMDB-Rating Decoder Ring

[Tom Moertel]

Inspired by Robert's talk, I recreated my IMDB Movie-Rating Decoder ring 
to mimic the data tables in old engineering and statistics books.  I was 
able to pack in a ton of data, including percentile scores for every 
film genre from Action to Western.

The decoder ring instantly turns a movie's rating on IMDB into a more 
useful number:  a percentile that shows where the movie ranks among all 
other movies.  For example, "Spider-Man 2" has a 7.9 rating on IMDB. 
With the decoder ring, I can tell that the movie is better than about 95 
percent of movies in general and better than about 97 percent of action 
movies.  "Fantastic Four," on the other hand has a 6.1 rating and ranks 
at an unimpressive 41 percent mark.  Just 1.8 IMDB points can make a big 
difference.

http://community.moertel.com/ss/space/IMDB+Movie-Rating+Decoder+Ring

Cheers,
Tom