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Statistics and Data Sources by Subject

Media

New York Times Developer Network

New York Times API clearinghouse and community. Search portions of the The New York Times. APIs available for articles, book reviews, movie reviews, Times Newswire, top stories, and more. 

 

Nielsen.com Top Ten 

Discover what Americans are watching, reading, playing, browsing, buying and more.

 

Additional resources for television ratings:

 

The Futon Critic

 

USATODAY.com

Nielsen ratings for all broadcast network series and cable telecasts in prime time and most-tweeted about shows for the week. 

Zap2it.com

Nielsen daily ratings, weekly ratings, DVR and on-demand ratings. Also includes renew/cancel index scores.

Movie Statistics

Cinema Statistics

From the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Institute for Statistics

Statistics by country. Includes: film production, indoor cinemas and screens (per capita), frequency of attendance, movie ticket prices, top 10 movies, and language of production. Also includes special studies. 

Movie Ratings

Box Office Guru

Box Office Mojo

BoxOffice Pro

Hollywood Stories dataset

From InformationisBeautiful.net

Coverage: 2007-2013. Includes lead studio, composite review score, story type, genre, grosses, budget, and profitability. 

Motion Picture Association of America

The Numbers

WorldwideBoxoffice

Movie Budgets

Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Look under the entry for the movie

 

The Numbers

Movies: Awards Won

Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Look under the entry for the movie

Social Media

Facebook Graph API

Use the HTTP-based Graph API to query Facebook user data that is not private. 

 

Interesting Social Media Datasets

From KDnuggets (August 2014)

 

Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection

Component of the Stanford Network Analysis Project (SNAP) from Stanford University

"A collection of more than 50 large network datasets from tens of thousands of nodes and edges to tens of millions of nodes and edges. In includes social networks, web graphs, road networks, internet networks, citation networks, collaboration networks, and communication networks." SNAP has been under continuous development since 2004 and reflects Stanford researchers' analysis of large information and social networks. (source: website)