Data Analysis on Determining False Movie Ratings

Online movie ratings have evolved into a serious business. Hollywood generates around $10 billion in box office revenue in the United States each year, and online ratings aggregators may have an increasing influence over where that money goes. A single film critic can no longer make or break a film, but perhaps thousands of critics, both professional and amateur, can how well can these platforms be trusted especially if they are showing the ratings and making money by selling the tickets? Do they have a bias by rating movies higher than it should be? The objective of the analysis is to provide brief research of one such online movie-ticket selling company, Fandango. The data collected from Fandango are analyzed and compared with the data collected from sites like Rotten Tomatoes, IMDB, and Metacritic. With the help of visualization, fraud and risk can be reduced offered by such online sites.