Does Fandango overrate its movies

 

Back in 2015, FiveThirtyEight published an article entitled "Be Suspicious Of Online Movie Ratings, Especially Fandango’s". The article concluded that Fandango tends to overrate thier movies. In other words, the number of stars that the website shows for a certain movie is often higher than the true rating for the same movie.

Our goal in this notebook is validate these results through a detailed EDA for the given data set.

To that end, the Analysis consists of two main parts

Exploring Fandango Displayed Scores versus True User Ratings Comparison of Fandango Ratings to Other Sites

The data used is this note book is publicly available on github

 For the complete code, click here