{"id":3791,"date":"2008-11-18T21:16:52","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T20:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=3791"},"modified":"2008-11-18T21:16:52","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T20:16:52","slug":"jinni-a-new-movie-recommendation-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/11\/18\/jinni-a-new-movie-recommendation-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Jinni: A new movie recommendation engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jinni.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3792\" title=\"Jinni logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/jinni-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jinni.com\/home.html\">Jinni<\/a><\/strong> is a new\u00a0search and recommendation engine for movies and TV shows whose aim is to help viewers find stuff they will like.<\/p>\n<p>I signed up and will give it a go, after all the idea is a good one.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from &#8216;what is your favourite film?&#8217;, the question I&#8217;m most frequently asked is something like:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What&#8217;s a good film I should see?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a trickier question than it might seem, because although I have my views on what&#8217;s good, my taste isn&#8217;t always going to chime in with who&#8217;s asking me.<\/p>\n<p>Sites like this and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flixster.com\/\">Flixster<\/a>\u00a0appear to offer a solution to the &#8216;what should I see&#8217; problem but\u00a0the main drawback is that it is a pain to rate lots of films.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, the more you rate the better the recommendations will be (or that&#8217;s the theory) but I don&#8217;t know if a scientific approach always works best.<\/p>\n<p>Just because on film is like another (e.g. same genre or director) doesn&#8217;t mean it will always have the same effect on the viewer.<\/p>\n<p>I think what people crave is a film that hits the sweet spot, in other words a special movie that ticks a lot of boxes all at once.<\/p>\n<p>But that is pretty hard to calculate, no matter how much data you have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jinni is a new\u00a0search and recommendation engine for movies and TV shows whose aim is to help viewers find stuff they will like. I signed up and will give it a go, after all the idea is a good one. Apart from &#8216;what is your favourite film?&#8217;, the question I&#8217;m most frequently asked is something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[661],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}