Netflix Prize Movie Similarity Visualization

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This image shows the similarities between 5000 movies that were found by an algorithm used for the Netflix Prize. Each movie is represented by a dot with the movie title next to it. Similar movies are connected by a line. Line colors closer to red indicate a weaker similarity, and colors closer to yellow indicate a stronger similarity. As you can see, many movies tend to cluster around common genres, themes, directors, or actors.

This visualization was created by Chris Hefele. The original PNG file is available on Flickr (7.65 MB).

You can view more of Chris's recent work on Flickr.
Netflix Prize large movie maps (showing similarities between all 5,000 movies, similar to the image above)
Interesting close-ups of the Netflix Prize Movie Maps (an example close-up is below)

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