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Over the last few days, I've been looking at different ways to get films in the database that are likely to be "good". That's obviously a fuzzy target. What's amazing for one person may be garbage for the next. I don't really love the idea of trying to scrape a "score" that another site has come to algorithmically. That's really not the point of this database anyway. Mainly, I just want to find wa...
Progress: Importing Festival Winners & Non-English Films
Oct 28, 2021
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Today I did a bunch of parsing film taglines and descriptions looking for major cities within countries, states and territories. It turned up a lot of easily identifiable locations that had been missed before. But it also produced a lot of false positives, so there was a lot of manual error checking. Still, made pretty good progress and added a bunch of movies across the US & Canada. Milestone...
Progress: Wednesday 10/20
Oct 20, 2021
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