Netflix, which has 27 million subscribers in the nation and 33 million worldwide, ran the numbers. It already knew that a healthy share had streamed the work of Mr. Fincher, the director of “The Social Network,” from beginning to end. And films featuring Mr. Spacey had always done well, as had the British version of “House of Cards.” With those three circles of interest, Netflix was able to find a Venn diagram intersection that suggested that buying the series would be a very good bet on original programming.
For ‘House of Cards,’ Using Big Data to Guarantee Its Popularity - NYTimes.com
Even if this isn’t true, it should be. Very cool.
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This used to be called “using a spreadsheet”.
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