Title :
Prediction of the box-office with publicly available information and web search volume
Author :
Masashi Okazaki;Ryuichiro Nagasaka;Ryota Miyata
Author_Institution :
Graduate School of Engineering and Science, University of the Ryukyus, 1, Senbaru, Nishihara, Nakagami, Okinawa, 903-0213, Japan
Abstract :
In this report, we predict the opening weekend boxoffice revenue for future films released in United States using the two models; (i) search-based model, (ii) baseline model. We find that the prediction accuracy in each model and essential information to forecast the box-office varies from category to category.
Keywords :
"Predictive models","Motion pictures","Solid modeling","Correlation coefficient","Animation","Web search"
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Informatics and Biomedical Sciences (ICIIBMS), 2015 International Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ICIIBMS.2015.7439489
